2 Kings 23:14
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Kings 23:14 in other translations
| BSB | He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones. |
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| WEB | He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones. |
| ASV | And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. |
| YLT | And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men; |
| DARBY | And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men. |
| BBE | The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead. |
| Webster | And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. |
What does 2 Kings 23:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 23:13-14
13-14. the high places ... which Solomon ... had builded--(See on 1Ki 11:5). the right hand of the mount of corruption--The Mount of Olives is a hilly range on the east of Jerusalem. This range has three summits, of which the central one is the Mount of Corruption, so called from the idol temples built there, and of course the hill on the right hand denotes the southernmost peak. Josiah is said not to have…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 23:4-14
What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would not have believed it possible, that in Judah, where God was known, in Israel, where his name was great, in Salem, in Zion, where his dwelling-place was, such abominations should be found. Josiah had reigned eighteen years, and had himself set the people a good example, and kept up religion according to the Divine law; yet, when he came to search for…
2 Kings 23:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 23:14
- Exodus 23:24
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
- Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
- 2 Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
- Micah 1:7
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
- Numbers 33:52
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
- Numbers 19:18
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
- Deuteronomy 7:25-26
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
- Numbers 19:16
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
- Matthew 23:27-28
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
- Ezekiel 39:12-16
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon–gog. …
- Jeremiah 8:1-2
At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3-4
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
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Context
- 2 Kings 23:13
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
- 2 Kings 23:14
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- 2 Kings 23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Beth–el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
2 Kings 23:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y quebró las estatuas, y taló los bosques, é hinchió el lugar de ellos de huesos de hombres. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et il brisa les statues, et coupa les ashères, et remplit d’ossements d’hommes les lieux où ils étaient. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er zerschlug die Bildsäulen und hieb die Ascherim um, und füllte ihre Stätte mit Menschengebeinen an. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et contrivit statuas, et succidit lucos: replevitque loca eorum ossibus mortuorum. |