2 Kings 23:6 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | RSV

And he brought out the Ashe'rah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.

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

And he brought out the grove ... — The Asherah set up by Manasseh (2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 21:7), a…

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord Not a real grove of trees, but a carved one, as some think; or rather the i…

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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