2 Kings 23:8

And he brought all the priests... — Josiah caused all the priests of the local sanctuaries of Jehovah to migrate to Jerusalem, and polluted the high places to which they had been attached, in order to get rid of the illegitimate worship once for all.

From Geba. — The present Jeba, near the ancient Ramah (1 Kings 15:22).

To Beer-sheba. — Where was a specially frequented high place (Amos 5:5; Amos 8:14; and Note on 2 Chronicles 34:6).

The high places of the gates. — Altars erected within the gates, that persons entering or leaving the city might make an offering to ensure success in their business.

That were in the entering in... — Thenius renders, (the high place) which was at the entry of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, (as well as) that which was on the left in the city gate. But this assumption of two localities is very precarious. The Authorised Version appears to be correct (a similar repetition of the relative referring to the same antecedent occurs in 2 Kings 23:13). Joshua is an unknown personage, and it is not clear whether “the gate of Joshua” was a gate of the city named after him, or the great gate of his residence; nor is it certain that “the gate of the city” was that now called the Jaffa Gate. It is possible that the governor’s residence lay near the principal gate of the city, on the left as one entered. Several “high places” stood in the open space in front of it, between it and the city gate. These would naturally be called “the high places of the gates.”