2 Kings 23:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangingsa for the grove. ”

2 Kings 23:7 - 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 23:7 - 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 23:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sodomites . male prostitutes. Suppression directed in Deuteronomy 23:17 ; Deuteronomy 23:18 . See note on 1 Kings 14:23 ; 1 Kings 14:24 . hangings. Hebrew houses. Probably veils to cover the...
2 Kings 23:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. The houses of the sodomites - We have already often met with these קד...
2 Kings 23:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. Brake down the houses of the sodomites, х haqªdeeshiym ( H6...
2 Kings 23:7 - 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 23:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The houses... by the house. — The cabins of the Kedçshim ... in the house . The Kedçshim were males , perhaps eunuchs, who prostituted themselves like women in honour of the Asherah. (See 1 K...
2 Kings 23:7 - 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 23:7 - 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 23:7 - 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 23:7 - 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 23:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites that were by the house of the Lord ,.... Near the temple were apartments, in which men, the worshippers of idols, prostituted their bodies to each other...
2 Kings 23:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 7. The houses of the sodomites. ] Abominable brothel houses....
2 Kings 23:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He brake down the houses of the sodomites The name sometimes given to the most infamous of all prostitutes, who exposed their bodies to be abused contrary to nature, in honour of those filthy deiti...
2 Kings 23:7 - 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 23:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Josiah Reforms Judah. B. C. 623. 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and...
2 Kings 23:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The houses of the sodomites; wherein some males prostituted their bodies to the lusts of others; which abominable practice was both a punishment of idolatry, Romans 1:23,24,27 , and a part of id...
2 Kings 23:7 - 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 23:7 - 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 23:7 - Scofield Reference Notes

grove ( See Scofield) - ( Deuteronomy 16:21 ).
2 Kings 23:7 - 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 23:7 - 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 23:7 - 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 23:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Covenant Renewed
2 Kings 23:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 14:24 ; 1 Kings 15:12 ; 1 Kings 22:46 ; 2 Chronicles 34:33 ; Exodus 35:25 ; Exodus 35:26 ; Ezekiel 16:16 ; Ezekiel 8:14 ; Genesis 19:4 ; Genesis 19:5 ; Hosea 2:13 ; Romans 1:26 ;...
2 Kings 23:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sodomites — Sodomy was a part of idol — worship, being done to the honour of some of their idols, and by the appointment of those impure and diabolical spirits, which were worshipped in their idols...

2 Kings 23:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Kings 23:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 23:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 23:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 23:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 23:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 23:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 23:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 23:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 23:7 - Scofield Reference Notes

2 Kings 23:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 23:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 23:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 23:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 23:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 23:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes