Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 15:35
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
35. Howbeit the high places ] In 2 Chronicles it is merely said ‘the people did yet corruptly’.
He built the higher [R.V. upper ] gate of the house of the Lord ] By ‘build’ is only meant ‘restore’ or ‘beautify’. The gate existed before. The temple stood on a slope, of which the northern side was the highest and the gate on that side was the one of which Jotham made some restoration. The account of his buildings is somewhat fuller in 2 Chronicles. ‘On the wall of Ophel he built much. Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers’. His success in war, also unnoticed by the compiler of Kings, is dwelt on by the Chronicler. He fought with the Ammonites and conquered them, and the children of Ammon paid him in that year a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand measures of wheat, and the same quantity of barley, and they continued the payment for a second and a third year. ‘So Jotham became mighty because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God’.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He built the higher gate – Jotham followed the example of his father in military, no less than in religious, matters (compare the marginal reference with 2Ch 26:9). The higher or upper gate of the temple is thought to have been that toward the north; and its fortification would seem to indicate fear of an attack from that quarter.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Not of the temple, properly so called; but of one of the courts of the temple, probably that which led to the kings palace, 2Ch 23:20; called also the new gate, Jer 26:10; 36:10.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
35. the higher gate of the house ofthe Lordnot the temple itself, but one of its courts; probablythat which led into the palace (2Ch23:20).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Howbeit the high places were not removed,…. As they were not by his father, and the same is observed of the best of kings before:
the people sacrificed and burnt incense still in the high places; from which they could not be brought off by prophets or kings:
he built the higher gate of the house of the Lord; which was between the temple and the king’s palace, which led to it; this he repaired and beautified, or added something to it; or otherwise it was built by Solomon, and therefore called the new gate, Jer 26:10 it is the same that was afterwards called the gate of Nicanor; the east gate, as say the Jewish writers k.
k T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 7. 1. Gloss. in ib. Maimon. Cele Hamikdash, c. 7. sect. 6.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ki 15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
Ver. 35. He built the higher gate. ] Then, when the people doted upon high places; though he disliked their practice.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
He built. Compare 2Ch 27:3.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Howbeit: 2Ki 15:4, 2Ki 18:4, 2Ch 32:12
the higher gate: 2Ch 27:3-9
Reciprocal: 1Ki 3:3 – only he 2Ki 14:4 – the high places 2Ch 27:2 – the people Isa 65:7 – burned Jer 26:10 – the new Jer 36:10 – entry Eze 9:2 – the higher