2 Kings 23:4
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Jerusalem, Bethel 1, Kidron
- WHEN
- c. 622-609 BC
ON THE MAP
WHEN
c. 622-609 BC
dated by the text itself
WHO RULED
- Neco II pharaoh of Egypt 610-595 BC
- Josiah king of Judah 640-609 BC
MEANWHILE
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612 BC Assyria
Fall of Nineveh
The empire that took the northern kingdom captive vanishes within a generation, as Nahum 3 announces.
SOURCES
- date — 2 Kings 22:3 dates the finding of the Book of the Law by the eighteenth year of Josiah.
- Neco II — Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), Battle of Carchemish; Herodotus II
- Josiah — 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles 34-35; his death at Megiddo falls in the Egyptian campaign of 609 BC, which the Babylonian Chronicles record
- Fall of Nineveh — Chronicle of Nabopolassar (ABC 3)
SEE ALSO
- 2 Kings 21:3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped…
- 2 Kings 21:7 Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem,…
- 2 Kings 25:18 The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of…
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