John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 23:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made.] For the worship of the calf there: both that altar, and the high place, he brake down; according to an ancient prophecy of the man of God, (<111303>1 Kings 13:3) and of Amos in later times, (<300901>Amos 9:1) and burnt the high place, and stamped it small to powder; that there might be no remains of it: and burnt the grove; either the grove of trees on it, or the idol that was in it.

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