2 Kings 23:14 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ He broke in pieces the pillars (images) and cut down the Asherim and replaced them with the bones of men [to defile the places forever].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁴ He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the sacred poles, filling the places where they had been with human bones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he filled their places with the bones of the dead.

2 Kings 23:14 Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:5

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Exodus 23:24

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

2 Kings 23:16

And as Josi´ah 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.

Micah 1:7

And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.

Numbers 33:52

then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

Numbers 19:18

and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

Numbers 19:16

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Exodus 34:13

but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Isaiah 44:19

And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Ezekiel 6:5

And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehush´tan.

Isaiah 27:9

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.