2 Kings 23:14
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New International Version (©1984)
Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. Then he desecrated these places by scattering human bones over them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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 (©1995)
He broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with human bones.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Josiah crushed the sacred stones, cut down the poles dedicated to Asherah, and filled their places with human bones.

King James Bible
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

American King James Version
And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, 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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

Darby Bible Translation
And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.

English Revised Version
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;

Geneva Study Bible

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Wesley's Notes

23:14 Men - Of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of their graves, ver.18. As he carried the ashes of the images to the graves, to mingle them with dead mens bones, so he carried dead mens bones to the places where the images had been, that both ways idolatry might be rendered loathsome. Dead men and dead gods were indeed much alike, and fittest to go together.

King James Translators' Notes

images: Heb. statues

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

14. filled their places with the bones of men-Every monument of idolatry in his dominion he in like manner destroyed, and the places where they stood he defiled by strewing them with dead men's bones. The presence of a dead carcass rendered both persons and places unclean in the eyes both of Jews and heathens.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:4-14 What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would not have believed it possible, that in Judah, where God was known, in Israel, where his name was great, in Salem, in Zion, where his dwelling-place was, such abominations should be found. Josiah had reigned eighteen years, and had himself set the people a good example, and kept up religion according to the Divine law; yet, when he came to search for idolatry, the depth and extent were very great. Both common history, and the records of God's word, teach, that all the real godliness or goodness ever found on earth, is derived from the new-creating Spirit of Jesus Christ.


Deuteronomy 7:5 "But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:25 "The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
2 Kings 23:16 Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. (NASB ©1995)

Asherah Asherahs Asherim Ashe'rim Bits Bones Brake Broke Broken Columns Covered Cut Cutteth Filled Filleth Groves Human Images Josiah Pieces Pillars Places Poles rs Sacred Shrines Smashed Standing-Pillars Stone Stones Wood


And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

he brake. Ex 23:24 Nu 33:52 De 7:5,25,26 2Ch 34:3,4 Mic 1:7

images. Heb. statues. the bones of men. 16 Nu 19:16,18 Jer 8:1,2 Eze 39:12-16 Mt 23:27,28

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