Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 23:6

6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and stampt it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people .

See on ver. 4.

i. e. Of the common people, whose Graves were made together in some common place, which was generally accounted very impure and contemptible, and therefore a sit place for this [illegible: 1+ letters]ilth to be thrown into. Or, of Bastards, who are oft called the children of the people: who as they had this brand of infamy laid upon them, that they might not enter into the congrigation of the Lord, Deut. 23. 2. so possibly they were exposed to this further Ignominy, to be buried in a peculiar, and in the most infamous place. Or rather, as it is in the Hebrew, of that people, i. e. those Idolatrous people, as it is explained, 2 Chr. 34. 4. and here sufficiently implied in this and the foregoing Verse.

Marginal references: Chap. 21. 7.