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The grove: See Poole "2Ki_23:4". Of the children of the people, 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 fit place for this filth 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 congregation of the Lord, Deu_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, 2Ch_34:4, and here sufficiently implied in this and the foregoing verse.