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2 Kings 23:14

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

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ASV

And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

KJV

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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וְשִׁבַּר֙ve.shi.Barand he brokeH7665 →
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הַמַּצֵּב֔וֹתha.ma.tze.Votthe sacred pillarsH4676 →
וַיִּכְרֹ֖תvai.yikh.Rotand he cut downH3772 →
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הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםha.'a.she.Rimthe Asherah polesH842 →
וַיְמַלֵּ֥אvay.ma.Le'and he filledH4390 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
מְקוֹמָ֖םme.ko.Mamplace theirH4725 →
עַצְמ֥וֹתatz.Motbones ofH6106 →
אָדָֽם׃'a.DamhumankindH120 →

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2 Chronicles 14:3He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.Exodus 23:24You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.Deuteronomy 7:5Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.2 Kings 23:16And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.Exodus 34:13Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.Micah 1:7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.Numbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.Ezekiel 39:12–16For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.2 Chronicles 34:3–4In 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 of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.Matthew 23:27–28Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.Numbers 19:18Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.Jeremiah 8:1–2“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.Numbers 33:52you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.Deuteronomy 7:25–26You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.2 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.Deuteronomy 12:3Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.2 Chronicles 34:3In 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 of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.Ezekiel 6:4Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

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