Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 23:12

12 And the altars that [illegible: 1 word] on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz , which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron .

i. e. Upon the Roof of the Kings House. They were so mad upon their Idols, that they were not content with all their publick high places and Altars, but made others upon their House-tops, for the worship of the Heavenly bodies. See Ier. 19. 13. Zeph. 1. 5.

Quest. How could this be, when Manasseh had taken them away before, 2 Chr. 33. 15▪ Ans. Either, these Altars were not so fully destroyed as they should have been, the foundations of them being left through the neglect of the Officers appointed to do that work, upon which Amon built his new Altars. Or, if they were wholly rooted out, Amon's new Altars are called by his Fathers name, because they were built by his example, and in the very same place where his Fathers Altars were; as the Wells which Isaac digged in the same place, where Abraham had digged them before, were therefore called by their ancient names, Gen. 26. 15. See more on the next Verse.

The Priests and the Peoples. See ch. 21. 5.

Partly, to shew his derestation of them: and partly, to abolish the very remembrance of them as far as he could.

Marginal references: Chap. [illegible: 1+ letters]1. [illegible: 1+ letters].; Or, [illegible: 1 word] from thence.