A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah.

2 Kings 23:4

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

He took away. —This is the same word as “put down” (2 Kings 23:5). Here, as there, the Syriac and Arabic render it as …

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had
given to the sun

Consecrate…

What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would not have believed it possible that in Judah, where God was known, in Israel, where h…