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Verse 2 Kings 23:9. _THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES CAME NOT UP_] As
these priests had offered sacrifices on the _high places_, though it
was to the _true God_, yet they were not thought proper to be...
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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 “priests of the...
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2. THE RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL AND THE DEATH OF JOSIAH
CHAPTER 23:1-30
_ 1. The People hear the law (2 Kings 23:1; 2 Chronicles 34)_
2. Josiah makes a covenant (2 Kings 23:3)
3. The great reformati...
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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 porch of t...
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PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES. Not idolatrous priests. See note on 2
Kings 23:8....
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F. THE REFORMATION INTENSIFIED 23:4-23
The author deals with the reformation launched by Josiah
geographically rather than chronologically. He discusses (1) the
cleansing of the Temple (2 Kings 23:4-...
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_NEVERTHELESS THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES CAME NOT UP TO THE ALTAR
OF THE LORD IN JERUSALEM, BUT THEY DID EAT OF THE UNLEAVENED BREAD
AMONG THEIR BRETHREN._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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.;...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 23
THE *COVENANT WITH THE *LORD
V1 The king called together all the leaders of *Judah and Jerusalem.
V2 He went to th...
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NEVERTHELESS... CAME NOT UP TO THE ALTAR. — _Only the, priests of
the high places used not to offer at the altar_. They were not
permitted to do so, being considered to be incapacitated for that
offic...
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אַ֗ךְ לֹ֤א יַֽעֲלוּ֙ כֹּהֲנֵ֣י הַ
בָּמֹ֔ות אֶל ־מִזְבַּ֥ח יְהוָ֖ה בִּ
ירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם כִּ֛י אִם ־אָכְל֥וּ...
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JOSIAH'S REFORMATION
2 Kings 22:8; 2 Kings 23:1
"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 Law, and the...
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DESTROYING INDUCEMENTS TO EVIL
2 Kings 23:5
Encouraged by the prophets Zephaniah, Urijah, and perhaps Jeremiah,
Josiah set himself to the work of thorough reform, in which he
endeavored to carry his...
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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 t...
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Nevertheless the priests of the high places (i) came not up to the
altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened
bread among their brethren.
(i) Because they who had forsaken the...
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_Brethren. Thus people are degraded in the Christian Church, that they
may suffer some confusion (Calmet) in this world, and repent.
(Haydock) --- The priests, who had offered sacrifice unlawfully, wh...
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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 a...
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Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see
how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh,
young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23.
Observe what grace raised up Hezekiah and Josiah, both of whom were
born of fathers given up to idolatry, and followed by sons who were
equally ab...
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NEVERTHELESS, THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES CAME NOT UP TO THE ALTAR
OF THE LORD AT JERUSALEM,.... To sacrifice there, as the Targum;
though they were removed from the high places, they were not admi...
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Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar
of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread
among their brethren.
Ver. 9. _But they did eat of the unleaven...
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_Nevertheless, the priests of the high places_ Who had worshipped the
true God there. _Came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem_
Were not suffered to come thither to exercise their priestly o...
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1 Iosiah causeth the booke to bee read in a solemne assembly.
3 He reneweth the Couenant of the LORD.
4 He destroyeth idolatry.
15 He burnt dead mens bones vpon the altar of Bethel, as was
foreprop...
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THE COVENANT RENEWED...
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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 the...
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4-14 What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would
not have believed it possible, that in Judah, where God was known, in
Israel, where his name was great, in Salem, in Zion, where his...
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THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES, which worshipped the true God there.
CAME NOT UP TO THE ALTAR OF THE LORD IN JERUSALEM, i.e. were not
suffered to come thither to the exercise of their priestly functio...
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2 Kings 23:9 priests H3548 places H1116 up H5927 (H8799) altar H4196
LORD H3068 Jerusalem H3389 ate H398 (H8804) bread H4682 among H8432
brethren H251
the priests - Ezekiel 44:10-14; Malachi 2:8-9
bu...
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DETAILS OF JOSIAH'S REFORMS WHICH TOOK PLACE THROUGHOUT HIS REIGN OVER
MANY YEARS (2 KINGS 23:5).
What is now described would have commenced well before Josiah's
eighteenth year as the Temple was puri...
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CONTENTS: Law read to the people. The king's covenant and
reformations.
CHARACTERS: God, Josiah, Hilkiah. Pharaoh-neche, Jehoahaz, Jehoikim,
Eliakim.
CONCLUSION: We should put ourselves heartily int...
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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 Josiah f...
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_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. Go...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 23:4 The eastern slopes of the KIDRON Valley
had been associated with idolatry since the time of Solomon (1 Kings
11:7). It was a convenient place to destroy cult objects, ther...
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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 of imm...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 23:1
JOSIAH'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. HIS REFORMS AND DEATH. REIGN OF
JEHOAHAZ. ACCESSION OF JEHOIAKIM.
2 KINGS 23:1
_Josiah_'_s renewal of the covenant_._ _The first care of Jo...
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And the king stood by the pillar, and he made a covenant before the
LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and the
testimonies and the statutes with their heart and with their soul...
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1 Samuel 2:36; Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 44:29; Malachi 2:8; Malachi 2:9...
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The priest — Who worshipped the true God there. In Jerusalem —
Were not suffered to come thither to the exercise of their priestly
function; as a just punishment for the corruption of God's worship,
a...