2 Kings 23:14

In 11 translations

BSB

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

KJV

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

WEB

He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.

ASV

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

LSV

And he has broken the standing-pillars in pieces, and cuts down the Asherim, and fills their place with bones of men;

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

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

JPS

And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

LXXE

And he broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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WLC

וְשִׁבַּר֙ אֶת־הַמַּצֵּב֔וֹת וַיִּכְרֹ֖ת אֶת־הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים וַיְמַלֵּ֥א אֶת־מְקוֹמָ֖ם עַצְמ֥וֹת אָדָֽם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ συνέτριψε τὰς στήλας, καὶ ἐξωλόθρευσε τὰ ἄλση, καὶ ἔπλησε τοὺς τόπους αὐτῶν ὀστέων ἀνθρώπων.

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• Deuteronomy 7:5Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
• Exodus 23:24You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
• 2 Kings 23:16And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the…
• Numbers 19:18Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave,…
• Micah 1:7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
• Jeremiah 8:1–2“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their…
• Matthew 23:27–28Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. In the same way, on the…
• Numbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
• Deuteronomy 7:25–26You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God. And you must not bring…
• Ezekiel 39:12–16For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I display My glory, declares the Lord GOD. And…
• Numbers 33:52you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
• 2 Chronicles 34:3–4In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the…

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