2 Kings 23
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New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Kings 23:14-20

141He broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim and 2filled their places with human bones.

15Furthermore, 3the altar that was at Bethel and the 4high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down. Then he 56demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah. 16Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it 7according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. 17Then he said, “What is this monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “8It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.” 18He said, “Let him alone; let no one disturb his bones.” So they 9left his bones undisturbed 10with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. 19Josiah also removed all the houses of the high places which were 11in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made provoking 12the Lord; and he did to them 13just as he had done in Bethel. 20All the priests of the high places who were there 14he slaughtered on the altars and burned human bones on them; then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Kings 23:14 Deut 7:5, 25 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Kings 23:14 2 Kin 23:16 ↩
  3. 3. 2 Kings 23:15 1 Kin 13:1 ↩
  4. 4. 2 Kings 23:15 1 Kin 12:28-33 ↩
  5. 5. 2 Kings 23:15 So the Gr; Heb burned the high place ↩
  6. 6. 2 Kings 23:15 2 Kin 23:6 ↩
  7. 7. 2 Kings 23:16 1 Kin 13:2 ↩
  8. 8. 2 Kings 23:17 1 Kin 13:1, 30, 31 ↩
  9. 9. 2 Kings 23:18 Lit let his bones escape with ↩
  10. 10. 2 Kings 23:18 1 Kin 13:11, 31 ↩
  11. 11. 2 Kings 23:19 2 Chr 34:6, 7 ↩
  12. 12. 2 Kings 23:19 So with ancient versions ↩
  13. 13. 2 Kings 23:19 Lit according to all the acts ↩
  14. 14. 2 Kings 23:20 2 Kin 10:25; 11:18 ↩

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