Lièwángjìxià 23:16

16 Yuēxīyà huí tóu , kànjian shān shàng de fùnmù , jiù dǎfa rén jiāng fùnmù lǐ de háigǔ qǔ chūlai , shāo zaì tán shàng , wūhuì le tán , zhēng rú cóng qián shén rén xuānchuán Yēhéhuá de huà .

Lièwángjìxià 23:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 23:16

And as Josiah turned himself
From the high place, and the altar at Bethel; for he not only gave orders for the destroying of idolatrous places and idols, but he saw them executed himself:

he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount;
the graves of idolatrous priests and worshippers, who chose to be buried near those places of idolatry; nor was it unusual for persons to be buried on hills and mountains, see ( Joshua 24:30 Joshua 24:33 ) and this was a custom in other nations formerly ^F20, particularly among the Indians ^F21 now, who in many things agree with the Jews:

and sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon
the altar;
where they had sacrificed to idols:

and polluted it;
with their bones, which, according to the law, were defiling, and which was done in contempt of their idolatrous worship there:

according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who
proclaimed these words;
or things; foretold that such a king by name would arise, and burn men's bones upon the altar, and which had been foretold more than three hundred and fifty years before this time.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Vid. Servium in Virgil. Aeneid. 11. ver 849. "fuit ingens monte sub alto".
F21 Manasseh ben Israel Spes Israelis. sect 6. p. 29.

Lièwángjìxià 23:16 In-Context

14 Yòu dá suì zhù xiàng , kǎn xià mùǒu , jiāng rén de gútou chōngmǎn le nà dìfang .

15 Tā jiāng Bótèlì de tán , jiù shì jiào Yǐsèliè rén xiàn zaì zuì lǐ , ní bā de érzi Yéluóbōān suǒ zhú de nà tán , dōu chāihuǐ fùnshāo , dá suì chéng huī , bìng fùnshāo le yà shĕ là .

16 Yuēxīyà huí tóu , kànjian shān shàng de fùnmù , jiù dǎfa rén jiāng fùnmù lǐ de háigǔ qǔ chūlai , shāo zaì tán shàng , wūhuì le tán , zhēng rú cóng qián shén rén xuānchuán Yēhéhuá de huà .

17 Yuēxīyà wèn shuō , wǒ suǒ kànjian de shì shénme bēi . nà chéng lǐ de rén huídá shuō , xiānqián yǒu shén rén cóng Yóudà lái , yùxiān shuō wáng xiànzaì xiàng Bótèlì tán suǒ xíng de shì , zhè jiù shì tāde mù bēi .

18 Yuēxīyà shuō , yóu tā bā . búyào nuó yí tāde háigǔ . tāmen jiù bù dòng tāde háigǔ , yĕ bù dòng cóng sǎ Mǎlìyà lái nà xiānzhī de háigǔ .