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Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
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A Prophecy Fulfilled
Commentators emphasize that Josiah's destruction of the altar at Bethel was not a random act of zeal. It was the precise fulfillment of a prophecy made centuries earlier by a man of God (1 Kings 13:2). This demonstrates God's sovereignty over history and how His word is always accomplished, even generations later.
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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
The altar ... and the high place. —The and is missing in the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Targum. It is supplied in the Syriac…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Isr…
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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…
