Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men. he brake. Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues. Numbers 33:52 Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places, Deuteronomy 7:5,25,26 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. . . . 2 Chronicles 34:3,4 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things. . . . Micah 1:7 And I will make Samaria as a heap of stones in the field when a vineyard is planted: and I will bring down the stones thereof into the valley, and will lay her foundations bare. images. 2 Kings 23:16 And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things. Numbers 19:16,18 If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven days. . . . Jeremiah 8:1,2 At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of the princes thereof, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves. . . . Ezekiel 39:12-16 And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to cleanse the land. . . . Matthew 23:27,28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. . . . Context Josiah Destroys Idolatry…13The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side of the Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to Astaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of Moab, and to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king defiled. 14And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.15Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove.… Cross References Exodus 34:13 But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves: Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. Deuteronomy 7:25 Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. 2 Kings 23:16 And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things. Isaiah 44:19 They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the thought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked bread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and of the residue thereof shall I make an idol? shall I fall down before the stock of a tree? Ezekiel 6:5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars, Lexicon He smashed the sacred pillarsהַמַּצֵּב֔וֹת (ham·maṣ·ṣê·ḇō·wṯ) Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 4676: Something stationed, a column, an idol to pieces, וְשִׁבַּר֙ (wə·šib·bar) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7665: To break, break in pieces cut down וַיִּכְרֹ֖ת (way·yiḵ·rōṯ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant the Asherah poles, הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים (hā·’ă·šê·rîm) Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 842: A Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same and covered וַיְמַלֵּ֥א (way·mal·lê) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 4390: To fill, be full of the sites מְקוֹמָ֖ם (mə·qō·w·mām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition with human אָדָֽם׃ (’ā·ḏām) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being bones. עַצְמ֥וֹת (‘aṣ·mō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural construct Strong's Hebrew 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame Additional Translations He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. And he broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men. And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. 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