2 Kings 23:14 Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

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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.

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

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 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the idol poles, 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.

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;

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Law attached uncleanness to the "bones of men," no less than to actual corpses Numbers 19:16. We may gather from this and other passages 2 Kings 23:20; 1 Kings 13:2, that the Jews who rejected the Law were as firm believers in the defilement as those who adhered to the Law.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Filled their places with the bones of men - This was allowed to be the utmost defilement to which any thing could be exposed.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he brake in pieces the images,.... Of Ashtoreth, Chemosh, and Milcom, in the above high places; which as these high places had been rebuilt by Manasseh or Amon, so new images of these deities were placed there:

and cut down the groves; in which they were set:

and filled their places with the bones of men; of idolatrous priests and worshippers, buried in parts adjacent; these he dug up and scattered in the high places and groves to defile them, bones of the dead being by law unclean, Numbers 19:15.

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.

Exodus 34:13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.

Deuteronomy 7:5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

Deuteronomy 7:25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

2 Kings 23:16 Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

Isaiah 44:19 No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, "Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?"

Ezekiel 6:5 I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

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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

2 Kings Chapter 23 Verse 14

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