Parallel Verses
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.
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;
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
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Likewise, the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built unto Ashtoreth, the abomination of the Zidonians, and unto Chemosh, the abomination of the Moabites, and unto Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon.
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Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 23:24
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and completely break down their images.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall destroy their altars and break down their images and cut down their groves and burn their graven images in the fire.
2 Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount and sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres and burned them upon the altar and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who had proclaimed these words.
Numbers 19:16
And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields or a dead body or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:18
and a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the stuff and upon the persons that were there and upon the one that touched the bone or the one slain or the one dead or the grave.
Numbers 33:52
then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and abolish all their paintings and abolish all their molten images and destroy all their high places,
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
The graven images of their gods ye shall burn in the fire; thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
2 Chronicles 34:3-4
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David, his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the graven images and the molten images.
Jeremiah 8:1-2
At that time, said the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of his princes and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
Ezekiel 39:12-16
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them that they may cleanse the land.
Micah 1:7
And all her graven images shall be broken to pieces, and all her gifts shall be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols, for she gathered it of the gifts of harlots, and they shall return unto gifts of harlots.
Matthew 23:27-28
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whitewashed sepulchres, who indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.