2 Chronicles 34:4 - Exposition

Note references in Le 2 Chronicles 26:1 , 30. The images , that were on high above them; i.e; as Revised Version, the sun - images ( הַחַמָּנִים ). The word and name occur only eight times—in Leviticus as just quoted; in our Second Book of Chronicles three times; in Isaiah twice; and in Ezekiel twice. The groves ; i.e. the Asherim; again as last verse. The carved images ; Revised Version, graven images; Hebrew, הַפְסִלִים . This word is found twenty-two times, occurring in Deuteronomy, Judges, Kings, Chronicles, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, and Micah. The molten images ; Hebrew, הַמַּסֵּכוֹת . This word also occurs just twenty-two times, from Exodus downwards. Made dust of them and strewed it (so Exodus 32:20 ; 2 Kings 23:6 ).