Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 23:4
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4. the king commanded Hilkiah, c.—that is, the high priest and other priests, for there was not a variety of official gradations in the temple. all the vessels, &c.—the whole apparatus of idol-worship. burned them without Jerusalem —The law required them to be consigned to the flames ( Deuteronomy 7:25 ). in the fields of Kidron —most probably that part of the valley of Kidron, where lies Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives. It is a level, spacious basin, abounding at present with plantations [ROBINSON]. The brook winds along the east and south of the city, the channel of which is throughout a large portion of the year almost or wholly dry, except after heavy rains, when it suddenly swells and overflows. There were emptied all the impurities of the temple ( 2 Chronicles 29:15 2 Chronicles 29:16 ) and the city. His reforming predecessors had ordered the mutilated relics of idolatry to be thrown into that receptacle of filth ( 1 Kings 15:13 ; 2 Chronicles 15:16 ; 2 Chronicles 30:14 ); but Josiah, while he imitated their piety, far outstripped them in zeal; for he caused the ashes of the burnt wood and the fragments of the broken metal to be collected and conveyed to Beth-el, in order thenceforth to associate ideas of horror and aversion with that place, as odious for the worst pollutions. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"
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