American Standard Version
"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
“And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.”
“He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.”
“He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.”
“And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.”
“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.”
“And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.”
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
And the altars that were on the roof 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 Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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 Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.