Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
Notwithstanding, the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,.... Notwithstanding the great reformation wrought among them; for though…
Barnes' Notes
Perform - Rather, establish. Josiah saw that it was necessary, not only to put down open idolatry, but also to root out the secret practices of a similar character which were sometimes combined with…
Adam Clarke
The workers with familiar spirits - See on Kg2 21:5 (note).
And the images - The teraphim. See the note on Gen 31:19.
We have here an account of such a reformation as we have not met with in all the history of the kings of Judah, such thorough riddance made of all the abominable things and such foundations laid of a…
Cambridge Bible
Moreover theworkers with [R.V. them that had] familiar spirits, and the wizards See note on 2Ki 21:6. Josiah now proceeds to exterminate all the superstitious practices which grow up side by side with…
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