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Leviticus 26:30

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines,  and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols;  I will reject you.

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He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of those high places,  and he burned human bones on the altars.  Then he returned to Jerusalem.


Therefore Jacob’s iniquity  will be atoned for in this way, and the result of the removal of his sin will be this: when he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.


You will all know that I am the Lord when their slain lie among their idols around their altars,  on every high hill,  on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak #– #the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.


Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest   Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.


When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars  throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one.  Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.


So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed its altars and images and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars.


As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar.  He defiled it according to the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God  who proclaimed these things.


Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and he defiled the high places  from Geba  to Beer-sheba,  where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the city gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city (on the left at the city gate).


The man of God cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord: ‘Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says, “A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.” ’


if you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands #– #and break my covenant,


I will place my residence  among you, and I will not reject you.


You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.


for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the Lord, that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.’


When the Lord saw this, he despised them, angered by his sons and daughters.


for the message that he cried out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel  and against all the shrines of the high places  in the cities of Samaria  is certain to happen.’


He said to me, ‘Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet,  where I will dwell among the Israelites for ever.  The house of Israel and their kings will no longer defile my holy name by their religious prostitution and by the corpses  , of their kings at their high places.  ,


The Lord God has sworn by himself   #– #this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Armies: I loathe Jacob’s pride and hate his citadels, so I will hand over the city  and everything in it.


Isaac’s high places  will be deserted, and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.’


I will first repay them double for their iniquity  and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.’


I will hand you over to them, and they will demolish your mounds and tear down your elevated places. They will strip off your clothes,  take your beautiful jewellery, and leave you stark naked.


Their hearts are devious;  , now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.





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