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2 Kings 23:6

King James Version (KJV)

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2 Kings 23:6

Verse 6 of 37

Scripture focus

And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

2 Kings 23:6 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 2 Kings 23:6

Theological / Devotional

The grove. This was the graven image of the Asherah that Manasseh had made (ch. 21:3,7).

Burned it. The Asherah was probably made of wood, which would burn, with a metal overlay (see Deut. 7:25).

To powder. This is similar to the treatment accorded the golden calf in the wilderness (Ex. 32:20).

Children of the people. That is, the common people. The same expression occurs in Jer. 26:23, where it is thus translated. The common people were not buried in rock-hewn sepulchers but in ordinary graves. Since graves were considered unclean, the burial plot in the ravine of the Kidron was considered an appropriate place for the powder of the ruined idols.

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