2 Chronicles 34:7

7 And he breaketh down the altars and the shrines, and the graven images he hath beaten down very small, and all the images he hath cut down in all the land of Israel, and turneth back 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 and the bones of the priests he hath burnt on their altars, and cleanseth Judah and Jerusalem,

6 and in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their tools, round about.

7 And he breaketh down the altars and the shrines, and the graven images he hath beaten down very small, and all the images he hath cut down in all the land of Israel, and turneth back to Jerusalem.

8 And in the eighteenth year of his reign, to purify the land and the house he hath sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah head of the city, and Joah son of Johaz the remembrancer, to strengthen the house of Jehovah his God.

9 And they come in unto Hilkiah the high priest, and they give the money that is brought in to the house of God, that the Levites, keeping the threshold, have gathered from the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah, and Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,