2 Kings 23:14

Translations

Modern

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

Traditional

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Literal

And he broke in pieces the pillars, and he cut down the Asherah poles, and he filled their places with the bones of men.

Latin

Et contrivit statuas, et succidit lucos: replevitque loca eorum ossibus mortuorum.

Original

Hebrew

English

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

Notes

Theme notes and profiles

Josiah The Collapse of Culture

Events

Reign of Josiahc. 641 BC

Related verses

Deuteronomy 7:5
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
Exodus 23:24
You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
2 Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
Jeremiah 8:1–2
“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
2 Chronicles 34:3–4
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
Micah 1:7
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
Numbers 19:16
Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
Ezekiel 39:12–16
For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Deuteronomy 7:25–26
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
Numbers 19:18
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
Numbers 33:52
…you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
Matthew 23:27–28
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Parallels

1 Kings 13:1–10 2 Chronicles 34:3–7

People

Asherah: Canaanite goddess; associated with wooden poles, idolatry

Glossary

Bone Book of the Covenant Hell Josiah Kings, Books of First and Second Kohath, Kohathites Manasseh (Person)

Topics

Groves: Destroyed by Josiah Iconoclasm: Destroyed by Josiah Idolatry: Everything Connected With, should be Destroyed Josiah: King of Judah: Destroys the Altar and High Places of Idolatry Prophecies Concerning Israel: Josiah Succeeds Amon Prophecy: Miscellaneous, Fulfilled: The Birth and Zeal of Josiah Zeal: should be Exhibited: Against Idolatry

2 Kings 23:14

Translations?

Original?

Notes?

Events?

Related verses?

Parallels?