2 KI 23:14 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Καὶ συνέτριψε τὰς στήλας, καὶ ἐξωλόθρευσε τὰ ἄλση, καὶ ἔπλησε τοὺς τόπους αὐτῶν ὀστέων ἀνθρώπων.
(Kai sunetripse tas staʸlas, kai exōlothreuse ta alsaʸ, kai eplaʸse tous topous autōn osteōn anthrōpōn.)

BrTr And he broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

ULT And he shattered the pillars, and he cut down the Asherahs, and he filled their place with bones of man.

UST He also had them smash the stone pillars that represented Baal. He had them cut down and burn the poles that people had set up for worshiping the goddess Asherah. And he had them scatter human bones on the ground there to make those places ritually unclean.

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

OEB No OEB KI2 23:14 book available

WEBBE & WMBB He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.

NET He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.

LSV And he has broken the standing-pillars in pieces, and cuts down the Asherim, and fills their place with bones of men;

FBV He smashed the sacred stone pillars to pieces, chopped down the Asherah poles, and covered the places with human bones.

T4T They also broke into pieces the stone pillars that the Israeli people worshiped, and cut down the pillars that honored the goddess Asherah, and they scattered the ground there with human bones to desecrate it.

LEB He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites with human bones.

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.

Moff No Moff KI2 23:14 book available

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

ASV And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

DRA And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

YLT And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;

Drby And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.

RV And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

SLT He brake in pieces the statues and he will cut off the images, and fill their places with bones of man.

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

KJB-1769 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.[fn]

23.14 images: Heb. statues

KJB-1611 And he brake in pieces the [fn]images, and cut downe the groues, and filled their places with the bones of men.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

23:14 Heb. statues.

Bshps And brake the images, and cut downe the idol groues, and filled their places with the bones of men.
(And brake the images, and cut down the idol groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.)

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

Cvdl and brake the pilers, and roted out the groues, and fylled their places with mens bones.
(and brake the pillars, and rooted out the groves, and filled their places with men’s bones.)

Wycl and he al to-brak ymagis, and kittide doun wodis, and fillide the places of tho with the boonys of deed men.
(and he all broke_in_pieces images, and cut down woods, and filled the places of those with the bones of dead men.)

Luth Und zerbrach die Säulen und rottete aus die Haine und füllete ihre Stätte mit Menschenknochen.
(And broke the pillars/columns and rotted out_of the groves and filled their/her site/place with human_bones.)

ClVg Et contrivit statuas, et succidit lucos: replevitque loca eorum ossibus mortuorum.
(And crushed statues, and it_fell groves: and_filled places their bones of_the_dead.)

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Josiah’s Reforms throughout Judah and Israel

2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles

If ever there was a point in biblical history when the worship of Yahweh seemed all but extinguished, it was during the years leading up to King Josiah’s birth. Yet it was against this incredibly dark backdrop that the Lord raised up Josiah of Judah to bring about one of the greatest spiritual reforms his nation had ever seen. Josiah was the grandson of Manasseh, one of the most wicked and idolatrous kings of Judah (2 Kings 21:1-9; 2 Chronicles 33:1-9), though Manasseh later repented (2 Chronicles 33:12-19), and the son of Amon, another wicked, idolatrous king (2 Kings 21:18-22; 2 Chronicles 33:20-23). After his father’s death, Josiah became king at the young age of eight, so perhaps it was this lack of influence from his wicked father during some of his most formative years as a leader that enabled him to become such a force for spiritual renewal throughout Judah. Whatever the reason for his spiritual fervor, Josiah’s passion also coincided with a period of Assyrian decline, which allowed him to expand his renewal even to the lands once ruled by the northern kingdom of Israel. Josiah began his reforms by commissioning repairs to be made to the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. During these repairs, the book of the law, likely the book of Deuteronomy, was found in the Temple and brought to Josiah. When Josiah read the book, he tore his clothes in anguish over the punishment that surely awaited the nation for their disobedience to the laws of Moses. He called for all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to gather by the pillar of the Temple, and he read the law to them as well and led them to establish a new covenant to follow the laws of Moses. Josiah then began a great purge of idolatry throughout Jerusalem, Judah, and even Israel. Utensils used for pagan worship were removed from the Temple in Jerusalem and burned in the Kidron Valley, and their ashes were carried to Bethel. The image of Asherah was also removed and burned in the Kidron Valley, and the remains were ground to dust and spread over graves of the common people. The houses of the male prostitutes in the Temple area were also broken down. The horses and chariots dedicated to the sun by the kings of Judah were removed, and the chariots were burned. The altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz and the altars that Manasseh had made in Temple courtyard were pulled down and broken in pieces, and the rubble was thrown into the Kidron Valley. A place called Topheth in the Hinnom Valley was defiled so that no one would make a son or daughter pass through fire as an offering to Molech. Just east of Jerusalem the high places built by King Solomon for his pagan wives on the Mount of Corruption (also called the Mount of Olives; 1 Kings 11:7-8) were defiled. Josiah’s reforms throughout Judah included putting away the mediums, wizards, teraphim, idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land. At Bethel he tore down the altar and the high place erected by Jeroboam son of Nebat. He burned the high place, crushing it to dust, and burned the sacred pole. There he also saw tombs of people who must have been associated with the pagan rituals there, so he removed the bones and burned them on the altar, thus defiling it, as was prophesied years earlier (1 Kings 13:1-10). Josiah then extended his reforms to lands that formerly belonged to Israel but were now directly governed by Assyria. Throughout the towns of Samaria all the shrines of the high places were removed, the priests of the high places were slaughtered on the pagan altars, and their bones were burned on them. Throughout the rest of the land of Israel and Judah–in Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali–Josiah also broke down the altars, ground the sacred poles and images into powder, and demolished all the incense altars. When Josiah returned to Jerusalem, he celebrated the Passover in a way that exceeded all the Passover celebrations since the time of the Judges.

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Josiah’s Reforms throughout Judah and Israel

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