2 Kings 18:4
removed.12:3; 14:4; 15:4,35; Le 26:30; 1Ki 3:2,3; 15:14; 22:43; Ps 78:58Eze 20:28,29brake.23:4; De 7:5; 12:2,3; Jud 6:25,28; 1Ki 15:12,13; 2Ch 19:3; 31:12Ch 33:3images. Heb. statues. the brasen serpent.Nu 21:8,9; Joh 3:14,15unto those days.16:15Nehushtan.That is, a piece of brass.2 Kings 21:3
the high places.18:4,22; 2Ch 32:12; 34:3he reared.10:18-20; 1Ki 16:31-33; 18:21,26a grove.Rather, as we have before remarked, Asherah or Astarte. So Castel defines Asherah to be {Simulacrum ligneum Astartæ dicatum;} "A wooden image dedicated to Astarte." Ahab.8:18,27; Mic 6:16and worshipped.17:16; 23:4; De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ch 33:3-5; Job 31:262 Chronicles 30:14
altars.28:24; 34:4,7; 2Ki 18:22; 23:12,13; Isa 2:18-20the brook.15:16; 29:16; 2Sa 15:23; Joh 18:1Cedron.2 Chronicles 31:1
1 The people is forward in destroying idolatry.2 Hezekiah orders the courses of the priests and Levites, and provides for their work and maintenance.5 The people's forwardness in offerings and tithes.11 Hezekiah appoints officers to dispose of the tithes.20 The sincerity of Hezekiah. Now when.30:1-27all Israel.1Ki 18:38-40; 2Ki 23:2-20present. Heb. found.Ge 19:15; Es 4:16brake.14:3; 23:17; 32:12; 34:3-7; Ex 23:24; De 7:5; 2Ki 18:4images. Heb. statues.30:14in Ephraim.30:1,18; 34:6,7; 2Ki 17:2; 18:4; 23:15until, etc. Heb. until to make an end.2 Chronicles 32:12
Hath not.31:1; 2Ki 18:4,22; Isa 36:7taken away.This was artfully malicious: many of the people had sacrificed to Jehovah on high places, (ch. 31:1;) and Hezekiah had removed them, as incentives to idolatry. Hence Rabshakeh insinuates that by so doing he had offended Jehovah, deprived the people of their religious rights, and that, consequently, he could neither expect the blessing of God, nor the cooperation of the people. Ye shall worship.De 12:13,14,26,27one altar.4:1; Ex 27:1-8; 30:1-6; 40:26-29; 1Ki 7:48
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