2 Kings 23:14
World English Bible (WEB)
He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
In context
12 The king broke down 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 LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
13 The king defiled 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.
14 He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
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 LORD’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
2 Kings 23:14 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s 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.
- 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.