2|Kings 23:1a| Then| vv. 1-3: 2|Chron. 34:29-32
2|Kings 23:2a| read| Deut. 31:11
2|Kings 23:2b| book| cf. 2|Kings 22:8;| Deut. 31:26
2|Kings 23:3a| covenant| 2|Kings 11:17;| 2|Chron. 15:12
2|Kings 23:4a| Baal| 2|Kings 17:16;| 21:3
2|Kings 23:5a| Baal| 1|Kings 16:31-32
2|Kings 23:5b| host| Acts 7:42
2|Kings 23:6a| And| 2|Chron. 34:4
2|Kings 23:71| hangings
| Or, tents; lit., houses.
2|Kings 23:8a| broke| 2|Kings 18:4;| 2|Chron. 14:3;| 17:6
2|Kings 23:10a| Topheth| Isa. 30:33;| Jer. 7:31-32;| 19:6, 11-14
2|Kings 23:101| valley
| Gehenna of the New Testament (see note 228 in Matt. 5).
2|Kings 23:12a| courts| 2|Kings 21:5
2|Kings 23:151a| altar| 1|Kings 12:33
| What Josiah did in vv. 15-16 concerning the altar, the high place, that Jeroboam the son of Nebat built was a fulfillment of the prophecy by the man of God in 1|Kings 13:1-3.
2|Kings 23:15b| caused| 1|Kings 14:16
2|Kings 23:16a| bones| 1|Kings 13:2;| cf. Matt. 23:27
2|Kings 23:17a| man| 1|Kings 13:1
2|Kings 23:18a| bones| 1|Kings 13:31
2|Kings 23:21a| Passover| cf. Exo. 12:3-11;| Lev. 23:5-8;| Num. 9:2-4;| Deut. 16:2-8;| 2|Chron. 35:1-17;| cf. 2|Chron. 30:1-2
2|Kings 23:22a| no| vv. 22-23: 2|Chron. 35:18-19
2|Kings 23:24a| mediums| Lev. 19:31;| 20:27;| Deut. 18:11;| 2|Kings 21:6
2|Kings 23:24b| book| 2|Kings 22:8
2|Kings 23:25a| no| 2|Kings 18:5
2|Kings 23:261| Jehovah
| Because of all that Manasseh did to provoke God (21:1-18), even Josiah’s goodness could not rescue Judah out of God’s destroying hand.
2|Kings 23:26a| Manasseh| 2|Kings 21:11;| 24:3;| Jer. 15:4
2|Kings 23:27a| remove| 2|Kings 24:3, 20;| cf. 2|Kings 17:18, 20
2|Kings 23:27b| My| 2|Kings 21:4
2|Kings 23:29a| In| vv. 29-30a: 2|Chron. 35:20-24
2|Kings 23:29b| Pharaoh| Jer. 46:2
2|Kings 23:291| Pharaoh
| Lit., he.
2|Kings 23:30a| And| vv. 30b-34: 2|Chron. 36:1-4
2|Kings 23:33a| Riblah| 2|Kings 25:6, 20-21;| Jer. 39:5-6;| 52:9-10, 26-27
2|Kings 23:34a| changed| cf. 2|Kings 24:17;| Dan. 1:7
2|Kings 23:34b| died| cf. Jer. 22:11-12
2|Kings 23:36a| Jehoiakim| vv. 36-37: 2|Chron. 36:5