2 Kings 23:11

And he burned the horses which the king of Juda had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, + 23:11 Gr. to. by the treasury of Nathan the + 23:11 Heb. Nathan-melech. king's eunuch, in the + 23:11 Gr. again from the Heb. suburbs; and he burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

In Context

10And he defiled Taphes which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, constructed for a man to cause his son or his daughter to pass through + 23:10 Gr. in fire. fire to Moloch.

12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kedron.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:19and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the + 4:19 Gr. order of heaven. heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

1 Chronicles 26:18to relieve guard, also for Osa westward after the chamber-gate, three. There was a ward over against the ward of the ascent eastward, six men in a day, and four for the north, and four for the south, and at the Esephim two to relieve guard, and four by the west, and two to relieve guard at the pathway.

2 Chronicles 34:4And he pulled down the altars of Baalim that were before his face, and the high places that were above them; and he cut down the groves, and the graven images, and broke in pieces the molten images, and reduced them to powder, and cast it upon the surface of the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

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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