2 Kings 23:14

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

In context

12 He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

13 The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

14 He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

15 He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

16 And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

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2 Kings 23:14 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
KJV King James Version: And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
WEB World English Bible: He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
ASV American Standard Version: And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
YLT 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;
DBY Darby Translation: And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
WBS Webster Bible: And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.