2 Kings 23:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

2 Kings 23:14 Cross References

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, broke down the pillars, and cut down the sacred pole. He broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it; it was called Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:16

As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount, and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the festival; he turned and looked up at the tomb of the man of God who had proclaimed these things.

Exodus 23:24

you shall not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.

Exodus 34:13

Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces; no sacred poles or incense altars will remain standing.

Isaiah 44:19

No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. Now shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”

Ezekiel 6:5

I will lay the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Micah 1:7

All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste; for as the wages of a prostitute she gathered them, and as the wages of a prostitute they shall again be used.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:18

then a clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the furnishings, on the persons who were there, and on whoever touched the bone, the slain, the corpse, or the grave.

Numbers 33:52

you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn their idols with fire.