Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
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Jerusalem had been cleansed (2 Chronicles 30:14), and now the land had to be purged. Hezekiah, therefore, gave his sanction to a popula…

Destruction of the images and high places in both kingdoms. (Compare to 2 Kings 18:4.)
Now when all this was finished.…

Now when all this was finished
The temple cleansed, the priests and Levites sanctified, the passover and feast of un…

After the Passover, the people of Israel applied themselves with vigor to destroy the monuments of idolatry. Public ordinances should motivate us t…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes