2 Kings 23:14 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
2 Kings 23:14 in 6 Bible Translations
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2 Kings 23:14 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.”
2 Kings 23:14 — World English Bible
2 Kings 23:14 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. ”
2 Kings 23:14 — American Standard Version
2 Kings 23:14 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;”
2 Kings 23:14 — Young's Literal Translation
2 Kings 23:14 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men. ”
2 Kings 23:14 — Darby Translation
2 Kings 23:14 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“And he brake the images in pieces, and cut downe the groues and filled their places with the bones of men.”
2 Kings 23:14 — Geneva Bible
2 Kings 23:14 in Context — 2 Kings 23
12 And 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.
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.
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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.
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.
What Does 2 Kings 23:14 Mean?
2 Kings 23:14 is a verse from the Book of 2 Kings, part of the Old Testament. It appears in 2 Kings chapter 23. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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