He smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and filled their places with human bones.
Ezekiel 6:5 - Tree of Life Version I will lay the corpses of Bnei-Yisrael before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. American Standard Version (1901) And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. Common English Bible I’ll throw the Israelites’ corpses in front of their idols, and I’ll scatter your bones all around your altars. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel before the face of your idols. And I will scatter your bones around your altars. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars, |
He smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and filled their places with human bones.
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.
Will the evildoers never learn? They consume My people as they would eat bread, and never call upon God.
Therefore, the days are soon coming,” declares Adonai, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, nor the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury in Topheth until there is no room.
He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne, the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of Bnei-Yisrael forever. The house of Israel will no longer defile My holy Name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution or by the corpses of their kings in their high places.