2Ki 23:4-20, 2Ch 34:3-7 | TSK | STEP | priests of the second order.These were either such as occasionally supplied the high priest's office, or those of the second course or order established by David. See the References. the keepers. to bring. Baal. Kidron. Cedron. Beth-el.

2 Kings 23:4-20

priests of the second order.These were either such as occasionally supplied the high priest's office, or those of the second course or order established by David. See the References.

1Ch 24:4-19; Mt 26:3; 27:1

the keepers.

22:4; 1Ch 26:1-19

to bring.

21:3,7; 2Ch 33:3,7; 34:3,4

Baal.

17:16; Jud 2:13; 1Ki 16:31; 18:19,26,40; 19:18; Isa 27:9; Jer 7:9

Kidron.

2Sa 15:23; Joh 18:1

Cedron. Beth-el.

1Ki 12:29; Ho 4:15; Am 4:4

put down. Heb. caused to cease. the idolatrous priests.Heb. Chemarim.

Ho 10:5; *marg:"Foretold. Zep 1:4, 5."

planets. or, twelve signs, or constellations.So the Vulgate {duodecim signa,} "the twelve signs," i.e., the zodiac; which is the most probable meaning of the word {mazzaloth,} from the Arabic {manzeel,} a {caravanserai,} house, or dwelling, as being the apparent dwellings of the sun in his annual course; and the Targumists and Rabbins often employ the words {tereysar mazzalaya,} to denote the signs of the zodiac.

all the host.

21:3,4; Jer 8:1,2; 44:17-19

the grove.Or rather, Asherah, or Astarte.

21:7; Jud 3:7; 1Ki 14:23; 16:33; Jer 17:2

and burned.

Ex 32:20; De 7:25; 9:21

the graves.

10:27; 2Ch 34:4

the children.Probably the common people.

the sodomites.

Ge 19:4,5; 1Ki 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2Ch 34:33; Ro 1:26,27

where.

Ex 35:25,26; Eze 8:14; 16:16; Ho 2:13

hangings. Heb. houses.

from, etc.The northern and southern borders of Judah.

Geba.

Jos 21:17; 1Ki 15:22; 1Ch 6:60; Isa 10:29; Zec 14:10

Beer-sheba.

Ge 21:31; 26:23; Jud 20:1; 1Ki 19:3

the priests.

Eze 44:10-14; Mal 2:8,9

but they did.

1Sa 2:36; Eze 44:29-31

Topheth.

Isa 30:33; Jer 7:31,32; 19:6,11-13

Tophet. the valley.

Jos 15:8; 2Ch 28:3; 33:6; Jer 19:2; 32:35; Mt 5:22; *Gr:

might make.

16:3; 17:17; 21:6; Le 18:21; De 18:10; Jer 32:35; Eze 16:21; 20:26,31

Eze 23:37-39

the sun.

5; 2Ch 14:5; 34:4; Eze 8:16

house of the Lord.Throughout the East, the horse because of his swiftness and utility, was dedicated to the sun; and the Greeks and Romans feigned that the chariot of the sun was drawn by four horses, Pyrous, Eous, Aithon, and Phlegon: and hence also chariots were dedicated to that luminary. Jarchi says, that those who adored the sun had horses, which they mounted every morning, to go out to meet him at his rising. The kings of Judah had imitated these idolatrous customs, and kept the horses of the sun even at the entrance of the temple of the Lord!

chamberlain. or, eunuch, or officer.

on the top.

De 22:8; Jer 19:13; Zep 1:5

which Manasseh.

21:5,21,22; 2Ch 33:5,15

brake them down from thence. or, ran from thence. cast.

the mount of corruption. that is, the mount of Olives.Houbigant, deriving the Hebrew {mashchith} from {mashach,} "to anoint," reads "the Mount of Olives." Jarchi, following the Chaldee, also says this was the Mount of Olives; for this is the mount {hammishchah,} of unction: but because of the idolatrous purposes for which it was used, the Scripture changed the appellation to the mount of {hammashchith,} corruption.

Solomon.

1Ki 11:7; Ne 13:26

Ashtoreth.

Jud 2:13; 10:6; 1Sa 7:4; 12:10; 1Ki 11:5,33

Chemosh.

Nu 21:29; Jud 11:24; Jer 48:7,13,16

Milcom.

Zep 1:5

Malcham.

he brake.

Ex 23:24; Nu 33:52; De 7:5,25,26; 2Ch 34:3,4; Mic 1:7

images. Heb. statues. the bones of men.

16; Nu 19:16,18; Jer 8:1,2; Eze 39:12-16; Mt 23:27,28

the altar.

10:31; 1Ki 12:28-33; 14:16; 15:30; 21:22

stamped.

burned.

1Ki 13:1,2,32; Mt 24:35; Joh 10:35

who proclaimed.The Septuagint and Hexaplar Syriac at Paris insert, "when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the feast. And turning about, he cast his eyes on the sepulchre of the man of God"--

It is the sepulchre.

1Ki 13:1,30,31

alone. Heb. to escape. the bones of the prophet.

1Ki 13:1-22,31

the houses.

17:9; 1Ki 12:31; 13:32

the cities.

2Ch 30:6-11; 31:1; 34:6,7

the kings.

8:18; 1Ki 16:33; Mic 6:16

to provoke the Lord.

17:16-18; 21:6; Ps 78:58; Jer 7:18,19; Eze 8:17,18