Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Holman Bible
He broke the sacred pillars into pieces,
International Standard Version
He broke the pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherim, and filled their locations with human bones.
A Conservative Version
And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
American Standard Version
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Amplified
He broke in pieces the sacred pillars (cultic memorial stones, images) and cut down the Asherim and replaced them with human bones [to desecrate the places forever].
Bible in Basic English
The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead
Darby Translation
And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
Julia Smith Translation
He brake in pieces the statues and he will cut off the images, and fill their places with bones of man.
King James 2000
And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the idol poles, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites [with] human bones.
Modern King James verseion
And he broke the images in pieces, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and brake the images and cut down the groves and filled the places with the bones of men.
NET Bible
He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.
New Heart English Bible
He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
The Emphasized Bible
and he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Sacred Stems, - and filled their place with human bones:
Webster
And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
World English Bible
He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Themes
God » Special judgments inflicted » Bones scattered
God's Judgments » Special judgments inflicted » Bones scattered
Groves » Destroyed by » Josiah
Iconoclasm » Destroyed by » Josiah
Idolatry » Everything connected with, should be destroyed
Israel » Josiah » Succeeds » Amon » Revival
Josiah » King of judah » Destroys the altar and high places of idolatry
Kings » Who reigned over judah » Josiah
Prophecy » Miscellaneous, fulfilled » The birth and zeal of josiah
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 23:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Josiah's Covenantal Reforms
13 And the high places that are on the front of Jerusalem, that are on the right of the mount of corruption, that Solomon king of Israel had built to Ashtoreth abomination of the Zidonians, and Chemosh abomination of Moab, and to Milcom abomination of the sons of Ammon, hath the king defiled. 14 And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men; 15 and also the altar that is in Beth-El, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, by which he made Israel sin, both that altar and the high place he hath broken down, and doth burn the high place -- he hath beat it small to dust, and hath burnt the shrine.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 23:24
'Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.
Deuteronomy 7:5
'But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;
2 Kings 23:16
And Josiah turneth, and seeth the graves that are there in the mount, and sendeth and taketh the bones out of the graves, and burneth them on the altar, and defileth it, according to the word of Jehovah that the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
Numbers 19:16
'And every one who cometh, on the face of the field, against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean seven days;
Numbers 19:18
and a clean person hath taken hyssop, and hath dipped it in water, and hath sprinkled on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who have been there, and on him who is coming against a bone, or against one pierced, or against the dead, or against a grave.
Numbers 33:52
then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken it to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it is;
2 Chronicles 34:3-4
And in the eighth year of his reign (and he yet a youth), he hath begun to seek to the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he hath begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images.
Jeremiah 8:1-2
At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, They bring the bones of the kings of Judah, And the bones of its princes, And the bones of the priests, And the bones of the prophets, And the bones of inhabitants of Jerusalem, Out of their graves,
Ezekiel 39:12-16
And the house of Israel have buried them -- in order to cleanse the land -- seven months.
Micah 1:7
And all her graven images are beaten down, And all her gifts are burnt with fire, And all her idols I make a desolation, For, from the hire of a harlot she gathered, and unto the hire of a harlot they return.
Matthew 23:27-28
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness;