II Kings 23:14
“And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 II Kings 23:14 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
American Standard Version (ASV)English
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Und er zerschlug die Bildsäulen und hieb die Ascherim um, und füllte ihre Stätte mit Menschengebeinen an.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Y quebró las estatuas, y taló los bosques, é hinchió el lugar de ellos de huesos de hombres.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
E quebrou as estátuas, e arrancou os bosques, e encheu o lugar deles de ossos de homens.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
O rei Josias quebrou em pedaços os pilares de pedra, cortou os postes de Aserá e preencheu o lugar com ossos humanos.
📖 II Kings 23:14 in Context
12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13And 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.
14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15Moreover 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.
16And 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.
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