Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 23:20

20 And he slew all the priests of the high places , that were there upon the altars , and burnt mens bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

Either, 1. The Priests which Ieroboam had made of the meanest of the People, whom he [illegible: 1+ letters]ew, both for their Pre [illegible: 1+ letters] Usurpation of that Sacred Office, which of it self [illegible: 1+ letters]as Punishable with Death by God's Law, [illegible: 1 word]. 3. 10. and for their Idolatry. Or rather, 2. The Priests of Baalim; by comparing this Verse with the former, where speaking of these same High Places, he [illegible: 1+ letters]oth not say, which Ieroboam made; as is usual when he speaks of the High Places of the Calves; but which the other kings of Israel made, who were divers of them Worshippers of Baal; and by considering the Parallel place, 2 Chron. 34. 4. where it is said, they brake down the altars of Baalim, &c. By this Relation it appears, and from the nature of the thing, and common practise in like cases, it is more than probable, that after the departure of the King of Assyria, divers of the Israelites who had retired to other parts, and kept themselves out of the Conquerors hands, returned together with their Priests to their own Land, and to their old trade of Worshipping Idols; to whom, peradventure, they ascribed this their Deliverance from that Judgment which Iehovah had brought upon them.

According to that Famous Prophecy, 1 King. 13. 1, 2.

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