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All the priests, to wit, belonging to the high places there following, whether such as worshipped idols, or rather, such as worshipped God in those forbidden places, Deu_12:11, as may be gathered from the following verse.
Defiled the high places, by burning dead men’s bones upon them, as 2Ki_23:14,16,20, or by putting them to some other unclean or filthy use.
From Geba; the northern border of the kingdom of Judah; of which see Jos_18:24 1Ki_15:22. To Beer-sheba, which was the southern border; see Gen_21:31 Jud_20:1; i.e. from one end to the other.
The high places of the gates; which were erected by the gates of the city here mentioned, unto the honour of their tutelary gods, which after the manner of the heathen they owned for the protectors of their city and habitations.
In the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city: this circumstance is noted to show Josiah’s great zeal and impartiality, in rooting out all monuments of idolatry, without any respect unto those great persons who were concerned in them, or affected to them.