Verse 14

2 Kings 23:14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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14 And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/שִׁבַּר֙ אֶת הַ/מַּצֵּב֔וֹת וַ/יִּכְרֹ֖ת אֶת הָ/אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים וַ/יְמַלֵּ֥א אֶת מְקוֹמָ֖/ם עַצְמ֥וֹת אָדָֽם

English Translation

And he broke the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their place with the bones of men.

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Chapter 23 Context

1 And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he sent: and all the ancients of Juda an... Focus ↗

2 And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of... Focus ↗

3 And the king stood upon the step: and made a covenant with the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to... Focus ↗

4 And the king commanded Helcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkee... Focus ↗

5 And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high plac... Focus ↗

6 And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord without Jerusalem to the valley... Focus ↗

7 He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which th... Focus ↗

8 And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of Juda: and he defiled the high places,... Focus ↗

9 However the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem: but only a... Focus ↗

10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom: that no man should consecrate th... Focus ↗

11 And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to the sun, at the entering in of the... Focus ↗

12 And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had mad... Focus ↗

13 The high places also that were at Jerusalem on the right side of the Mount of Offence, O which Solom... Focus ↗

14 And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bon...

15 Moreover the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who... Focus ↗

16 And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he sent and to... Focus ↗

17 And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of that city answered: It is the sepulch... Focus ↗

18 And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his bones were left untouched with the bon... Focus ↗

19 Moreover all the temples of the high places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of... Focus ↗

20 And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there, upon the altars: and he burnt men's... Focus ↗

21 And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the phase to the Lord your God (Elohim), according as... Focus ↗

22 Now there was no such a phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the da... Focus ↗

23 As was this phase that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias. Focus ↗

24 Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the figures of idols, and the uncleannesses,... Focus ↗

25 There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with a... Focus ↗

26 But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his anger was ki... Focus ↗

27 And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face, as I have removed Israel: and I will... Focus ↗

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the wor... Focus ↗

29 In his days Pharao Nechao king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates:... Focus ↗

30 And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in... Focus ↗

31 Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusa... Focus ↗

32 And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done. Focus ↗

33 And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla, which is in the land of Emath, that he should not reign in Jer... Focus ↗

34 And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim the son of Josias king in the room of Josias his father: and turned h... Focus ↗

35 And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao, after he had taxed the land for every man, to con... Focus ↗

36 Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusale... Focus ↗

37 And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his fathers had done. Focus ↗

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Book: 2 Kings
Chapter: Chapter 23 (37 verses)
Version: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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