20Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.


In Context

17 The king asked, "What is that tombstone I see?" The men of the city said, "It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it."

18 "Leave it alone," he said. "Don't let anyone disturb his bones." So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

19 Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed and defiled all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria that had provoked the Lord to anger.

20 Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

21 The king gave this order to all the people: "Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."

22 Not since the days of the judges who led Israel, nor throughout the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah, had any such Passover been observed.

2nd Kings 23:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:20And he slew all the priests of the high places that [were] there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:20And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there, upon the altars: and he burnt men's bones upon them: and returned to Jerusalem.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:20And he sacrificed upon the altars all the priests of the high places that were there, and burned men's bones upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:20And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there upon the altars, and burnt men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:20He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:20And he slayeth all the priests of the high places who are there by the altars, and burneth the bones of man upon them, and turneth back to Jerusalem.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there on the altars, and burned men's bones on them, and returned to Jerusalem.