2 Kings 23:14 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁴ And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Ashĕrim, 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

2 Kings 18:4

He took away the high places and broke the pillars, and cut down the Ashĕrah, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent which Mosheh had made, for until those days the children of Yisra’ĕl burned incense to it, and called it Neḥushtan.

2 Kings 23:16

Then Yoshiyahu turned, and saw the burial-sites that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the burial-sites and burned them on the slaughter-place, and defiled it according to the word of יהוה which the man of Elohim proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

Exodus 23:24

“Do not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but without fail overthrow them and without fail break down their pillars.

Exodus 34:13

“But break down their slaughter-places, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ashĕrim –

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this the crookedness of Ya‛aqoḇ is covered. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he makes all the stones of the slaughter-place like chalkstones that are beaten to dust – Ashĕrim and sun-pillars rise no more.

Isaiah 44:19

And no one recalls it to his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire, and I have also baked bread on its coals; I have roasted meat and eaten it. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Should I fall down before a log of wood?”

Ezekiel 6:5

and lay the corpses of the children of Yisra’ĕl in front of their idols, and scatter your bones all around your slaughter-places.

Micah 1:7

“And all her carved images shall be beaten in pieces, and all her harlot-fees be burned with the fire. And all her idols I shall lay waste, for she gathered it from the harlot-fee of a whore, and they shall return to the harlot-fee of a whore.”

Numbers 19:16

Anyone in the open field who touches someone slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a burial-site, is unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:18

And a clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and shall sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the beings who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or the slain, or the dead, or a burial-site.

Numbers 33:52

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and shall destroy all their engraved stones, and shall destroy all their moulded images, and lay waste all their high places,

Deuteronomy 7:5

“But this is what you do to them: Break down their slaughter-places, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ashĕrim, and burn their carved images with fire.