A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah.

2 Kings 23:4

The priests of the second order - This is a new exp…

The altar ... and the high place. —The and is missing in the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Targum. It is supplied in the Syriac…

Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Isr…

Josiah's zeal extended to the cities of Israel within his reach. He carefully preserved the sepulcher of that man of God, who came from Judah to pr…