And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with axes.
Parallel translations
- WEB He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.
- KJV And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
- BSB Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.
- NASB In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding spaces,
- NLT He did the same thing in the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, and in the regions all around them.
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Josiah extends his reforms into the northern territories of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and Naphtali. His zeal reached beyond Judah into the former northern kingdom.
Overview
By purging idolatry in regions of fallen Israel, Josiah acts as a reformer for all the covenant people, not Judah alone. This reflects a longing for the reunification of God's people around true worship. His wide-reaching reform anticipates the gathering of all God's people under one faithful King.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Sam 13:20–21but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.
- 2 Kgs 23:15–20Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
- 2 Chr 30:10–11So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
- 2 Chr 31:1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
- 2 Chr 30:1Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Prov 25:18A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
- Isa 7:25All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.”
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