And he broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men.

又打碎柱像，砍下木偶，将人的骨头充满了那地方。

又打碎柱像，砍下亚舍拉，用人的骨头填满那地方。

又打碎柱像，砍下亚舍拉，用人的骨头填满那地方。

他砸碎神柱，砍倒亚舍拉神像，用死人骨头填满那些地方。

他又打碎神柱，砍下亚舍拉，把死人的骨头布满那个地方。

又打碎柱像，砍下木偶，將人的骨頭充滿了那地方。

又打碎柱像，砍下亞舍拉，用人的骨頭填滿那地方。

又打碎柱像，砍下亞舍拉，用人的骨頭填滿那地方。

他砸碎神柱，砍倒亞舍拉神像，用死人骨頭填滿那些地方。

他又打碎神柱，砍下亞舍拉，把死人的骨頭布滿那個地方。

他又打破崇拜柱子，把亞舍拉神木砍下來，使那地方充滿了人的骨頭。

碎其柱像、斫其木偶、以人骨充其所、

毀其像、斫其偶、以骸骨充其所。

碎諸石像、斫諸亞舍拉、亞舍拉或作木偶以骸骨充於其所、

Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

Josiah smashed the sacred stones. He cut down the poles used to worship the female god named Asherah. Then he covered all those places with human bones.

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

He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. Then he desecrated these places by scattering human bones over them.

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, then filled their places with human bones.

He also smashed to pieces the memorial stones and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with human bones.

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

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, then filled their places with human bones.

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

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.

He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

“ At that time,” says the Lord,“ they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.

All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, And all her pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire; All her idols I will lay desolate, For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot, And they shall return to the pay of a harlot.”

Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified,” says the Lord GOD.“ They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.The name of the city will also be Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse the land.”’

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;

“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave.

You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.