2 Kings 23:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 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.

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, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: And he brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:16

And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

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 break in pieces their pillars.

Exodus 34:13

but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim:

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

Isaiah 44:19

And none calleth to mind, 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 carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

Micah 1:7

And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate: for of the hire of an harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of an harlot shall they return.

Numbers 19:16

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

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 the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

Numbers 33:52

then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

Deuteronomy 7:5

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.