2 Kings
King James Version (KJV)
2 Kings 23:14
“And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.”
King James Version (KJV)
2 Kings 23:14 Context
11And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. 13And 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 builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. 15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove. 16And 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 proclaimed these words. 17Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
"And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men." 2 Kings 23:14 KJV Similar Verses Save
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Translation Details for 2 Kings 23:14
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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Bible Commentary for 2 Kings 23:14
Wesley's Notes for 2 Kings 23:14
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.
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut downe the groues, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
He broke in pieces the {sacred} pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with human bones.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
- Darby Bible
And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- English Revised Version
He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- World English Bible