Josiah killed all the priests of the high places that were in Samaria. He killed the priests on those altars. He burned men’s bones on the altars. {In this way he ruined those places of worship.} Then he went back to Jerusalem.
Exodus 22:19 - Easy To Read Version “You must not allow any person to have sexual relations with an animal. If this happens, then that person must be killed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whoever lies carnally with a beast shall surely be put to death. American Standard Version (1901) Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. Common English Bible Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal should be put to death. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal shall be put to death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Whosoever copulateth with a beast shall be put to death. |
Josiah killed all the priests of the high places that were in Samaria. He killed the priests on those altars. He burned men’s bones on the altars. {In this way he ruined those places of worship.} Then he went back to Jerusalem.
Any person that refused to serve the Lord God was to be killed. It did not matter if that person was important or not important or if that person was a man or woman.
“Be careful not to make any agreements with the people who live in that land. If you do this, then you might join them when they worship their gods. Those people will invite you to join them, and you will eat their sacrifices. [344]
They must not offer any more sacrifices to their ‘goat idols’! They have chased after those other gods. In that way, they have acted like prostitutes. [308] These rules will continue forever!
“You must not have sexual relations with any animal. This will only make you filthy [330] ! Also, a woman must not have sexual relations with an animal. It is against nature!
They made the land filthy [332] ! Now the land {is sick of those things}! And the land is vomiting out the people who lived there!
The people of Israel were camped near Acacia. At that time, the men began doing sexual sins [310] with Moabite women.
Then you must gather all the valuable things and take them to the center of the city and burn the city and everything in it. It will be a burnt offering to the Lord your God. The city must become an empty pile of rocks forever. That city must never be built again.
And the sign or miracle he told you about might come true. Then he might ask you to follow other gods (gods you don’t know). He might say to you, ‘Let’s serve those gods!’
“You might hear about an evil thing that happens in one of the cities that the Lord your God is giving you. You might hear that a man or woman in your group has sinned against the Lord. You might hear that they have broken the Agreement of the Lord—
then you must punish the person that did that evil thing. You must take that man or woman out to a public place near the city gates and kill them with stones.
“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that has sexual relations with any kind of animal!’