2 Kings 23:5 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | RSV

And he deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places at the cities of Judah and round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Ba'al, to the sun, and the moon, and the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah.

2 Kings 23:4

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

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

He put down. —Syriac and Arabic, he slew.

The idolatrous priests. —This refers to the kěmârîm…

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And he put down the idolatrous priests
The Cemarim, so called, because they wore black clothes, as Kimchi and others…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

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…

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