He removed the high places, smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made—for up to those days Bnei-Yisrael were still burning incense to it—it was called Nehushtan .
2 Kings 23:14 - Tree of Life Version He smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and filled their places with human bones. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. Common English Bible 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 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 And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men. |
He removed the high places, smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made—for up to those days Bnei-Yisrael were still burning incense to it—it was called Nehushtan .
Then, as Josiah looked around, he saw the burial caves there on the mountain, so he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, thus desecrating it—as was the word of Adonai which the man of God had proclaimed, who foretold it.
You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them, or do what they do. Rather, you are to utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.
Instead you must break down their altars, smash their pillars and cut down their Asherah poles.
So by this will Jacob’s sin be atoned and this the full price to remove his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like shattered chalk stones, so that the Asherah poles and incense rise no more.
No one reflects in his heart, with no knowledge or discernment to say, “I burned half of it in the fire and I also baked bread on its coals. I roasted meat and ate—and then I make the rest of it an abomination? Should I bow before a block of wood?”
I will lay the corpses of Bnei-Yisrael before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.
All her images will be smashed, all her prostitute’s pay burned with fire, and all her idols I will make desolate. For from prostitute’s pay she collected them and to prostitute’s pay they will return.
Anyone out in the open field who touches a dead body, whether killed by a sword or was killed by a natural cause, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Then a clean person will take some hyssop, dip it into the water, and, sprinkle it on the tent, all of the furnishings, and the people who were there, as well as the one touching the bone, the one killed, the corpse or the grave.
You must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. You must destroy all their idols and cast images, and demolish their high places.
Instead, you are to deal with them like this: tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.