Verse 4
4. Priests of the second order Those who ranked next in order to the high priest. The great body of the priesthood were of this order, but some among them were more distinguished than others. Compare 2 Kings 25:18.
Keepers of the door Levites who guarded the entrance to the temple, called porters in 1 Chronicles 23:5.
All the vessels Such as altars, images, and symbols, that had been used in the false worship.
Baal… grove… host of heaven See at 2 Kings 23:3-7.
Burned them As the law commanded. Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 7:25; Deuteronomy 12:3.
Fields of Kidron Probably at the upper part of the Kidron valley, and a little northeast of Jerusalem, where, according to Robinson, “the valley spreads out into a basin of some breadth, which is tilled, and contains plantations of olive and other fruit trees.” It was probably in the same spot that Asa burned the Asherah idol of his mother. 1 Kings 15:13.
Carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el To signify that all this idolatry originated, not at Jerusalem, but at Beth-el, where Jeroboam’s false worship had been inaugurated, (1 Kings 12:29,) and thence spread and opened the way for all manner of idolatrous practices.
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