cried] With earnestnesse and boldnesse declared his message, Isaiah 58:1. against the altar] To astonish the king the more, as Jeremiah 22:29. in the word, &c.] Inventing nothing of himself. O altar, altar] An elegant and emphaticall expression of his message, as Isaiah 29:1. Under the term, altar, all his idolatrous worship is comprised, because offerings on that altar were principall parts thereof. Behold] Though these things were accomplished three hundred and thirty yeers after this, yet they are as punctually in their particular circumstances set down, as if it had been, not a prediction of future things, but a narration of things past. Read 2 King. 22. 1, 2. and 23. 15, 16, 17. Josiah by name] 2 Kings 23:16. priests] See the accomplishing of this, 2 Kings 23:20.