2 Kings 23:14
King James Version (KJV)
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
In context
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2 Kings 23:14 in every translation
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human 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.