2 Kings 23:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he brake in pieces the images,e and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. ”

2 Kings 23:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah. 2 Kings 23:4 The priests of the second order - This is a new expression; and probably refers to the ordinary priests, called here “priest...
2 Kings 23:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:3 . by the pillar. covenant: for the word pillar see 2 Kings 11:14 and 1 Kings 7:21 . In the latter passage it is used for the two great brazen pillars set up by Solomon before the p...
2 Kings 23:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

images . pillars, or statues. men. Hebrew. 'adam. Used collectively. App-14.
2 Kings 23:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. Filled their places with the bones of men - This was allowed to be the utmost defilement to...
2 Kings 23:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. Filled their places with the bones of men. Every monument of idolatry in his dominio...
2 Kings 23:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Religious Reform. Josiah's Death 2. The prophets] Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah lived about this time. Read in their ears ] cp. the similar proceeding related in Nehemiah 8:4 .;
2 Kings 23:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The images... the groves. — The pillars... the ash ç rahs . These pillars and sacred trees may have been set up at the high places mentioned in the last verse; but the Hebrew construction does not...
2 Kings 23:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

JOSIAH'S REFORMATION 2 Kings 22:8-20 ; 2 Kings 23:1-25 "And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness." - #/RAPC 1Es 1:23 "From Zion shall go forth the...
2 Kings 23:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Destroying Inducements to Evil 2 Kings 23:5-14 Encouraged by the prophets Zephaniah, Urijah, and perhaps Jeremiah, Josiah set himself to the work of thorough reform, in which he endeavored to c...
2 Kings 23:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have a graphic account of the reformation following the discovery of the book of the Law. It was carried out by the splendid enthusiasm and energy of Josiah, and it is interesting...
2 Kings 23:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

When the king had finished reading the words of God's holy law, he proceeded with an holy zeal to bear testimony to God's truth, in the destruction of all that God's holy law had forbidden. And what...
2 Kings 23:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he brake in pieces the images ,.... Of Ashtoreth, Chemosh, and Milcom, in the above high places; which as these high places had been rebuilt by Manasseh or Amon, so new images of these deities w...
2 Kings 23:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. Ver. 14. And he brake in pieces the images. ] He made no spare of any of those idols an...
2 Kings 23:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And filled their places The places of the groves; with the bones of men Of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of their graves, 2 Kings 23:18 . As he carried the ashes of the...
2 Kings 23:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOSIAH'S COVENANT AND JUDGMENT OF IDOLATRY (vv.1-20) Being king in Judah and therefore the representative of all the people, Josiah realised his responsibility of involving them all in hearing t...
2 Kings 23:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Josiah Reforms Judah. B. C. 623. 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and...
2 Kings 23:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of their graves, 2 Kings 21:18 .
2 Kings 23:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Details of Josiah's Reforms Which Took Place Throughout His Reign Over Many Years ( 2 Kings 23:5-20 ). What is now described would have commenced well before Josiah's eighteenth year as the Temple...
2 Kings 23:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE DESTRUCTION OF IDOLATRY BY JOSIAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 23:1 . The king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah —Not content to hide from coming ill under God’s promise...
2 Kings 23:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 23:29 . He slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him; as in 2 Kings 14:8 . It would seem from this phrase that the two kings were engaged in single combat. This was an error for which Jos...
2 Kings 23:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

And the King sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. Good aims and bad methods The verses I have selected record and illustrate good alms and bad methods. I...
2 Kings 23:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Kings 23:1-12 JOSIAH 'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT . HIS REFORMS AND DEATH . REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ . ACCESSION OF JEHOIAKIM . 2 Kings 23:1-12 Josiah '...
2 Kings 23:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Covenant Renewed
2 Kings 23:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 34:3 ; 2 Chronicles 34:4 ; 2 Kings 23:16 ; Deuteronomy 7:25 ; Deuteronomy 7:26 ; Deuteronomy 7:5 ; Exodus 23:24 ; Ezekiel 39:12-16 ; Jeremiah 8:1 ; Jeremiah 8:2 ; Micah 1:7 ;...
2 Kings 23:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Men — Of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of their graves, 2 Kings 23:18 . As he carried the ashes of the images to the graves, to mingle them with dead mens bones, so he ca...

2 Kings 23:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Kings 23:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 23:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 23:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 23:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 23:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 23:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 23:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 23:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 23:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 23:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 23:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 23:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 23:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes