2 Kings 23:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Workers with familiar spirits, and wizards Of which see notes on Deuteronomy 18:10-11; Leviticus 19:31; and Leviticus 20:27. And the images Hebrew, the teraphim, images which were very ancient among idolaters. And idols Other kinds of images. And all the abominations that were spied All the instruments and monuments of idolatry that were discovered, were destroyed as God had commanded; not only such as were in the place of worship, but such as their priests or zealots had removed, and endeavoured to hide.

2 Kings 23:24

24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images,h 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.