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— D.L. Moody
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Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 23:24 — KJV
Familiar spirits. Demonology had taken strong hold of the Israelites. The people were serving the ruler of darkness instead of the Lord of heaven. Not angels but devils were their daily companions. They were giving ear to evil spirits rather than to the Holy Spirit. Josiah endeavored to clear the land of everything that had to do with demonism and the monstrous abominations that the worship of devils brought in its wake.
The images. Heb. teraphim. These were household gods (see on Gen. 31:19). Their worship had a peculiar appeal to the Hebrews, who clung to these idols with tenacity. Rachel stole the teraphim of her father, Laban (Gen. 31:19). Micah the Ephraimite had teraphim in his household (Judges 17:5; 18:14-20). Michal, the wife of David, possessed one of these images (1 Sam. 19:13).
Of the law. It was the purpose of Josiah to bring the law into full operation in every phase of national life. In this way Josiah hoped at least to mitigate the rain with which the nation was threatened.
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