SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:8
E hizo venir todos los sacerdotes de las ciudades de Judá, y profanó los altos donde los sacerdotes quemaban incienso, desde Gabaa hasta Beerseba; y derribó los altares de las puertas y los que estaban a la entrada de la puerta de Josué, gobernador de la ciudad; y los que estaban a la mano izquierda, a la puerta de la ciudad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:8
Verse 8. The gate of Joshua] The place where he, as governor of the city, heard and decided causes. Near this we find there were public altars, where sometimes the true God, at other times false gods, were honoured.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah , etc.] Who were of the sons of Aaron, and had served in the high places there: and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense ; by casting dead carcasses, or the bones of dead men, or dung, or anything that was unclean, into them, by way of contempt: from Geba to Beersheba ; which were the northern and southern boundaries of the land of Judah: and brake down the high places of the gates : of the cities where some think tutelar gods were placed to be worshipped by persons as they went in or out of them: and particularly that which were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city ; of the city of Jerusalem, where this Joshua was chief magistrate under the king; at whose door stood an high place, which, Kimchi thinks, might he greater than the rest, and therefore mentioned alone, yet was not spared on account of its greatness, or of the person to whom it belonged.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-14 - What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would not have believed it possible, that in Judah, where God was known, in Israel where his name was great, in Salem, in Zion, where his dwelling-plac was, such abominations should be found. Josiah had reigned eightee years, and had himself set the people a good example, and kept u religion according to the Divine law; yet, when he came to search for idolatry, the depth and extent were very great. Both common history and the records of God's word, teach, that all the real godliness of goodness ever found on earth, is derived from the new-creating Spiri of Jesus Christ.
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 את 853 כל 3605 הכהנים 3548 מערי 5892 יהודה 3063 ויטמא 2930 את 853 הבמות 1116 אשׁר 834 קטרו 6999 שׁמה 8033 הכהנים 3548 מגבע 1387 עד 5704 באר שׁבע 884 ונתץ 5422 את 853 במות 1116 השׁערים 8179 אשׁר 834 פתח 6607 שׁער 8179 יהושׁע 3091 שׂר 8269 העיר 5892 אשׁר 834 על 5921 שׂמאול 8040 אישׁ 376 בשׁער 8179 העיר׃ 5892
