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He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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Idolatry at the Temple's Door
Commentators highlight the shocking placement of these pagan symbols. The horses and chariots dedicated to sun worship were kept right at the entrance to the Lord's house. This shows how deeply and openly idolatry, likely adopted from nations like Persia, had corrupted Judah's official worship, even in its most sacred spaces.
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2 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah.
2 Kings 23:4
The priests of the second order - This is a new exp…
19th Century
Anglican
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun
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