2 Kings 23:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

The grove

Jeremiah 17:2

And burned

Exodus 32:20

Deuteronomy 7:25

Deuteronomy 9:21

The graves

2 Kings 10:27

2 Chronicles 34:4

General references

Jeremiah 32:34

Bible References

The grove

And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon, his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;

And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD and forgot the LORD their God and served the Baalim and the groves.

For they also built themselves high places and statues, and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

Ahab also made groves, and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

that their sons might remember their altars and their groves, by the green trees and upon the high hills.

And burned

And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire and ground it to powder and scattered it upon the waters and made the sons of Israel drink it.

The graven images of their gods ye shall burn in the fire; thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire and stamped it and ground it very small even until it was as small as dust, and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

The graves

And they broke down the image of Baal and broke down the house of Baal and made it a latrine unto this day.

And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the images of the sun, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves and the graven images and the molten images, he broke in pieces and made dust of them and scattered it upon the graves of those that had sacrificed unto them.

General references

but they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.