2 Kings 23:6

And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kedron, and burned it at the brook Kedron, and reduced it to + 23:6 Or, ashes.powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchres of the sons of the people.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

In Context

5And he burned the + 23:5 Heb. הבמויס.idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Juda had + 23:5 Gr. given.appointed, (and they burned incense in the high places and in the cities of Juda, and the places round about Jerusalem); and them that burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to + 23:5 Or, the twelve signs. Heb. ולמולות compare Job 38. 32.Mazuroth, and to all the host of heaven.

7And he pulled down the house of the + 23:7 The Gr. is from the Heb. word.sodomites that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove tents for the grove.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:25Ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: thou shalt not covet their silver, neither shalt thou take to thyself gold from them, lest thou shouldest offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Judges 3:7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

1 Kings 15:13And he removed Ana his mother from being queen, forasmuch as she + 15:13 Gr. made.gathered a meeting in her grove: and Asa cut down her retreats, and burnt them with fire in the brook of Kedron.

2 Kings 10:26And they brought out the pillar of Baal, and burnt it.

2 Kings 21:7And he set up the graven image of the grove in the house of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I even place my name for ever.

2 Chronicles 15:16And he removed Maacha his mother from being priestess to Astarte; and he cut down the idol, and burnt it in the brook of Kedron.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 23:5-25

Josiah Reforms Judah. ( b. c. 623.) 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the… Read the whole commentary →

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