2 Chronicles 23:17 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.”
2 Chronicles 23:17 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
2 Chronicles 23:17 in 6 Bible Translations
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2 Chronicles 23:17 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.”
2 Chronicles 23:17 — World English Bible
2 Chronicles 23:17 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. ”
2 Chronicles 23:17 — American Standard Version
2 Chronicles 23:17 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“and all the people enter the house of Baal, and break it down, yea, his altars and his images they have broken, and Mattan priest of Baal they have slain before the altars.”
2 Chronicles 23:17 — Young's Literal Translation
2 Chronicles 23:17 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And all the people went into the house of Baal, and broke it down; and they broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. ”
2 Chronicles 23:17 — Darby Translation
2 Chronicles 23:17 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“And all the people went to the house of Baal, and destroyed, and brake his altars and his images, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.”
2 Chronicles 23:17 — Geneva Bible
2 Chronicles 23:17 in Context — 2 Chronicles 23
15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there.
16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.
17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the Lord by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
What Does 2 Chronicles 23:17 Mean?
2 Chronicles 23:17 is a verse from the Book of 2 Chronicles, part of the Old Testament. It appears in 2 Chronicles 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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