Lièwángjìxià 23:6

6 Yòu cóng Yēhéhuá diàn lǐ jiāng yà shĕ là bān dào Yēlùsǎlĕng waì Jílúnxī biān fùnshāo , dá suì chéng huī , jiāng huī sǎ zaì píng mín de fùn shàng .

Lièwángjìxià 23:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 23:6

And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord
Not a real grove of trees, but a carved one, as some think; or rather the image of the grove, ( 2 Kings 21:7 ) that is, the idol Ashtoreth, or Astarte, which was set up there; so Theodoret says; some interpreters call it Astoreth, the name of Venus, whom they call Astarte: this Josiah ordered to be brought

without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook
Kidron;
the black brook, where the filth of the sacrifices was carried:

and stamped it small to powder;
as Moses did the golden calf:

and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the
people;
the common people, see ( Jeremiah 26:23 ) or rather on the graves of the worshippers of idols, as it seems from ( 2 Chronicles 34:4 ) the Targum is,

``on the graves of the children of Galia,''

which, Kimchi says, is the name of an idol; this was done partly in contempt of the idol, groves being, according to law, impure; and partly to the reproach of the deceased, and the memory of them, for their idolatry, and to deter from it those that survived them.

Lièwángjìxià 23:6 In-Context

4 Wáng fēnfu Dàjìsī Xīlèjiā hé fù jìsī , bìng bǎ mén de , jiāng nà wèi bāLìhé yà shĕ là , bìng tiān shàng wàn xiàng suǒ zào de qìmǐn , dōu cóng Yēhéhuá diàn lǐ bān chūlai , zaì Yēlùsǎlĕng waì Jílúnxī páng de tiánjiān shāo le , bǎ huī ná dào Bótèlì qù .

5 Cóng qián Yóudà liè wáng suǒ lì baì ǒuxiàng de jìsī , zaì Yóudà chéngyì de qiū tán hé Yēlùsǎlĕng de zhōuwéi shāoxiāng , xiànzaì wáng dōu feì qù , yòu feì qù xiàng bāLìhé rì , yuè , xíng xīng ( huò zuò shí èr gōng ) , bìng tiān shàng wàn xiàng shāoxiāng de rén .

6 Yòu cóng Yēhéhuá diàn lǐ jiāng yà shĕ là bān dào Yēlùsǎlĕng waì Jílúnxī biān fùnshāo , dá suì chéng huī , jiāng huī sǎ zaì píng mín de fùn shàng .

7 Yòu chāihuǐ Yēhéhuá diàn lǐ luán tóng de wūzi , jiù shì fùnǚ wèi yà shĕ là zhī zhàng zǐ de wūzi ,

8 Bìngqiĕ cóng Yóudà de chéngyì daì zhòng jìsī lái , wūhuì jìsī shāoxiāng de qiū tán , cóng Jiābā zhídào Bièshìbā , yòu chāihuǐ chéng mén páng de qiū tán , zhè qiū tán zaì yì zǎi Yuēshūyà mén qián , jìn chéng mén de zuǒbiān .