2 Kings 23:14
2 Kings 23:14 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Kings 23:12-15 The Message (MSG)
The king smashed all the altars to smithereens—the altar on the roof shrine of Ahaz, the various altars the kings of Judah had made, the altars of Manasseh that littered the courtyard of The Temple—he smashed them all, pulverized the fragments, and scattered their dust in the Valley of Kidron. The king proceeded to make a clean sweep of all the sex-and-religion shrines that had proliferated east of Jerusalem on the south slope of Abomination Hill, the ones Solomon king of Israel had built to the obscene Sidonian sex goddess Ashtoreth, to Chemosh the dirty-old-god of the Moabites, and to Milcom the depraved god of the Ammonites. He tore apart the altars, chopped down the phallic Asherah-poles, and scattered old bones over the sites. Next, he took care of the altar at the shrine in Bethel that Jeroboam son of Nebat had built—the same Jeroboam who had led Israel into a life of sin. He tore apart the altar, burned down the shrine leaving it in ashes, and then lit fire to the phallic Asherah-pole.
2 Kings 23:14 King James Version (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 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
He broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with human bones.
2 Kings 23:14 New Century Version (NCV)
Josiah smashed to pieces the stone pillars they worshiped, and he cut down the Asherah idols. Then he covered the places with human bones.
2 Kings 23:14 American Standard Version (ASV)
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 New International Version (NIV)
Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.
2 Kings 23:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
And he broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men.