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Discipline Tempered with Grace
Commentators explain that the priests who had served at the unauthorized "high places" were disciplined by being barred from serving at the main altar in Jerusalem. However, they were not completely excommunicated. They were still provided for from the temple offerings, demonstrating a principle of corrective discipline that includes both consequences and provision.
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2 Kings
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Kings 23:4–20
18th Century
Theologian
A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah.
The priests of the second order - This is a new exp…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Kings 23:9
19th Century
Bishop
Nevertheless ... came not up to the altar. — Only the priests of the high places did not offer at the altar. They were no…
John Gill
On 2 Kings 23:9
17th Century
Pastor
Nevertheless, the priests of the high places came not up to the
altar of the Lord at Jerusalem
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Kings 23:4–14
17th Century
Minister
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…