2 Kings 23:19 meaning and explanation
Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
2 Kings 23:19, Berean Standard Bible
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Josiah, king of Judah, is extending his reform northward into the former territory of Israel, whose capital was Samaria. The narrator reports that he removed the shrines of the high places that earlier kings of Israel had established, the same kings the book repeatedly describes as provoking the LORD to anger.
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