June 6, 2013 – 2 Kings 23

I wonder, when they said the read from the book of the covenant, what book are they talking about.  We have the first five books of the Old Testament, and several of them are books of statutes, more or less, so I wonder if that is what they are talking about.  Or was there a book of more laws or only laws that was written and the Old Testament books were taken from this. 

Some of the alters he tore down were put up by Solomom, so it says.  Those were there, I think, almost 300 years and as long as the Temple.  It must have been a very big deal to tear down such things.  And for all that he is doing, I think we hear about him even less than Hezakiah. 

We see that the two followers do evil in the sight of God and it states that they do so just like their "fathers" had done.  I have mentioned this before in talking about geneologies that father could mean grandfather etc and anyone in the grand line.  That would explain not only the use of plural "fathers", but also that they followed in their fathers example, because theire bio father did good things, not evil.