Catholic Public Domain Version
"And he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he filled their places with the bones of the dead. "
— 2 Kings 23:14, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.”
“And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 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.”
Also, he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the Sun, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, beside the hallway of Nathan-melech, the eunuch, who was in Pharurim. And he burned the chariots of the Sun with fire.
Also, the altars which were upon the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king destroyed. And he hurried from there, and he scattered their ashes into the torrent Kidron.
Also, the high places which were in Jerusalem, to the right side of the Mount of Offense, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built to Ashtoreth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh, the offense of Moab, and to Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.
And he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he filled their places with the bones of the dead.
Then too, the altar which was in Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made: both that altar and the high place he tore down, and burned, and reduced to dust. And then he also set fire to the sacred grove.
And in that place Josiah, turning, saw the sepulchers which were on the mount. And he sent and took the bones from the sepulchers. And he burned them upon the altar, and he defiled it in accord with the word of the Lord, which was spoken by the man of God, who had predicted these events.
And he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the citizens of that city responded to him: “It is the sepulcher of the man of God, who came from Judah, and who predicted these events, which you have carried out concerning the altar of Bethel.”