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2 Chronicles 34:7

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He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

KJV

And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 34

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

he burned the bones of the priests on their altars

on 2 Chronicles 34:5-7

Josiah “burned the bones of the priests on their altars,” the worst defilement an altar could suffer under the law. John Gill ties the act to the man of God at Bethel, who named this deed more than three hundred and fifty years before Josiah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And when he had broken down the altars and the groves,....

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְנַתֵּ֣ץand he pulled down

    vaynatetzH5422 →42 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַֽמִּזְבְּח֗וֹתthe altars

    hamizbechotH4196 →401 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הָאֲשֵׁרִ֤יםthe Asherah poles

    haasherimH842 →40 times

  • וְהַפְּסִלִים֙and the idols

    vehapesilimH6456 →23 times

  • כִּתַּ֣תhe crushed

    kitatH3807 →

  • לְהֵדַ֔קto pulverize

    lehedakH1854 →13 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַֽחַמָּנִ֥יםthe incense altars

    hachamanimH2553 →8 times

  • גִּדַּ֖עhe cut down

    gida'H1438 →22 times

  • בְּכָל־in all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיָּ֖שָׁבand he returned

    vaiyashovH7725 →1056 times

  • לִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ סto Jerusalem

    lirushalimH3389 →643 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

12 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 31:1When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.4 worksDeuteronomy 9:21And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.3 works2 Chronicles 14:5He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.3 works2 Chronicles 34:1Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.2 works2 Chronicles 15:16King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.2 works2 Chronicles 23:17So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.2 works
The other 6 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Chronicles 30:14They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.2 works2 Chronicles 34:4Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.2 works2 Chronicles 34:5Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.2 works2 Kings 11:18So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.2 worksEzekiel 7:2“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.2 worksJudges 3:7So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 31:1

    When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 18:4

      He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites…

    • 2 Chronicles 32:12

      Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?

    • 2 Chronicles 34:3–7

      In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem…

    • 2 Chronicles 23:17

      So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 9:21

    And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 32:20

      Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink…

    • Isaiah 31:7

      For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 34:1

    Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 1:2

      The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,

    • Zephaniah 1:1

      This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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