2 Chronicles 34:7

7 tore down the altars and sacred poles, ground the idols to dust, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then Josiah returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 34:7

And when he had broken down the altars and the groves
The statues or images in them:

and had beaten the graven images into powder;
and strewed it on the graves of the idolaters:

and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel;
the sun images as in ( 2 Chronicles 34:4 ) ,

he returned to Jerusalem;
this tour of his throughout the whole land, and the things done by him, which are represented as done before the repairs of the temple were made, and the book of the law found and read, and the covenant he and his people made with the Lord, are spoken of in ( 2 Kings 23:4-20 ) , as if done after.

2 Chronicles 34:7 In-Context

5 He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, purifying Judah and Jerusalem.

6 In the cities of Mannaseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, all the way up to Naphtali, he removed their temples,

7 tore down the altars and sacred poles, ground the idols to dust, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then Josiah returned to Jerusalem.

8 In the eighteenth year of his rule, after he had purified the land and the temple, Josiah sent Azaliah's son Shaphan, Maaseiah the mayor of the city, and Joahaz's son Joah the secretary to repair the LORD his God's temple.

9 When they came to the high priest Hilkiah, they delivered the money that had been collected in God's temple by the levitical gatekeepers from Manasseh, Ephraim, and the rest of Israel, as well as from Judah, Benjamin, and the residents of Jerusalem.