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.


In Context

17 Then he said, |What monument is that which I see?| The men of the city told him, |It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.|

18 He said, |Let him be! Let no man move his bones.| So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

20 He 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.

21 The king commanded all the people, saying, |Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.|

22 Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

2 Kings 23:20 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:20Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

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 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.