14He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.


In Context

11 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

12 The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

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

15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

2 Kings 23:14 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:14And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:14And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:14And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:14And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:14And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:14And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:14And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.