2 Kings 23:3

Josiah Restores True Worship

1 Now ^athe king sent them to gather all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him.

2 The king went up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he ^aread in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant ^bwhich had been found in the house of the Lord.

3 Then the king ^astood by a pillar and made a ^bcovenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant.

4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the ^apriests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring ^bout of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

5 Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the¹ constellations, and to ^aall the host of heaven.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Stood by a pillar - He stood, al haammud , "upon the stairs or pulpit." This is what is called the brazen scaffold or pulpit which Solomon made, and on which the kings were accustomed to stand when they addressed the people. See II Chronicles 6:13, and the parallel places.

Made a covenant - This was expressed,

1.In general. To walk after Jehovah; to have no gods besides him.

2.To take his law for the regulation of their conduct.

3.In particular. To bend their whole heart and soul to the observance of it, so that, they might not only have religion without, but, piety within.

To this all the people stood up, thus giving their consent, and binding themselves to obedience.

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