Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the 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.
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
13 And 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 for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh th 14 And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. 15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down. And he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and bu
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 23:24
Thou shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works, but thou shall utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them: Ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
2 Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he noticed the sepulchers that were there in the mount. And he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of LORD which the ma
Numbers 19:16
And whoever in the open field touches a man who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:18
And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the souls who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
Numbers 33:52
then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
Ye shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. Thou shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to thee, lest thou be snared by it, for it is an abomination to 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 Asherim, and the graven im
Jeremiah 8:1-2
At that time, says LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their gr
Ezekiel 39:12-16
And the house of Israel shall be burying them seven months, that they may cleanse the land.
Micah 1:7
And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces. And all her wages shall be burned with fire, and I will lay desolate all her idols. For she has gathered them from the wages of a harlot, and to the wage of a harlot they shall r
Matthew 23:27-28
Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.