King James Version
2 Kings 23:14 in the King James Version says “And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. images: Heb. ...” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. images: Heb. statues”
2 Kings 23:14 · KJV
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. brake: or, ran from thence
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. the mount: that is, the mount of Olives
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. images: Heb. statues
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the images”
H4676something stationed, i.e., a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol
“and cut down”
H3772to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e., make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutt
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the groves”
H842asherah (or astarte) a phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
“and filled”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“their places”
H4725properly, a standing, i.e., a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
“with the bones”
H6106a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e., (as pron.) selfsame
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