John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 14:5

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images, etc.] Perhaps the high places in (<141403>2 Chronicles 14:3) design only the high places and altars in Jerusalem, and near it; these in all the rest of the cities of the land; the “images were”, as the word signifies, “sun images”, either made in the form of the sun, or dedicated to it, or temples for it; (See Gill on “<032630>Leviticus 26:30”), and the kingdom was quiet before him; he had no foreign enemy to molest him, and so took that opportunity to reform divine worship, and in that he met with no opposition from his people.

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