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Verse 2 Kings 23:7. _THE HOUSES OF THE SODOMITES_] We have already
often met with these קדשים _kedeshim_ or _consecrated persons_.
The word implies all kinds of _prostitutes_, as well as _abusers of
t...
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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
s...
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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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SODOMITES. male prostitutes. Suppression directed in Deuteronomy
23:17; Deuteronomy 23:18. See note on 1 Kings 14:23; 1 Kings 14
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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 23:4-7...
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23:7 tents (e-21) Lit. 'houses.'...
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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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SODOMITES] The suppression of such is directed in Deuteronomy 23:17;
Deuteronomy 23:18. HANGINGS] lit. 'houses,' i.e. tents which sheltered
the Asherah (or emblem of Ashtoreth)....
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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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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
Kings...
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וַ יִּתֹּץ֙ אֶת ־בָּתֵּ֣י הַ
קְּדֵשִׁ֔ים אֲשׁ
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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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JOSIAH
B.C. 639-608
2 Kings 22:1; 2 Kings 23:1
Jos., "Ant.," X 4:1.
"In outline dim and vast
Their fearful shadows cast
The giant forms of Empires, on their way
To ruin: one by one
They tower,...
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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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Effeminate. Hebrew, "consecrated" (Calmet) or "initiated" (Montanus)
in the obscene mysteries of idols. See Deuteronomy xxiii. 18., and 3
Kings xv. 12., and 2 Machabees vi. 4. These men prostituted th...
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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 aba...
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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;
c...
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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.
_...
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_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 deitie...
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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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And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, the male prostitutes,
THAT WERE BY THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WHERE THE WOMEN, those who were
associated with these lewd practices, WOVE HANGINGS FOR THE GRO...
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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 W...
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HANGINGS:
_ Heb._ houses...
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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 hi...
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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 idol wors...
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2 Kings 23:7 down H5422 (H8799) booths H1004 persons H6945 house H1004
LORD H3068 women H802 wove H707 ...
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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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GROVE
(_ See Scofield) - (Deuteronomy 16:21). _...
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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
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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 JEHO
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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 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Chronicles 34:33;...
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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. H...