And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
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Gill's Exposition
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah,.... Who were of the sons of Aaron, and had served in the high places there:
and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt…
A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah. 2Ki 23:4 The priests of the second order - This is a new expression; and probably refers to the ordinary priests, called here “priests of the second…
Adam Clarke
The houses of the sodomites - We have already often met with these קדשים kedeshim or consecrated persons. The word implies all kinds of prostitutes, as well as abusers of themselves with mankind.
Wove…
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…
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