And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, 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.
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.
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.
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Filled their places with the bones of men - This was allowed to be the utmost defilement to which any thing could be exposed.
The Law attached uncleanness to the "bones of men," no less than to actual corpses Numbers 19:16. We may gather from this and other passages 2 Kings 23:20; 1 Kings 13:2, that the Jews who rejected the Law were as firm believers in the defilement as those who adhered to the Law.
23:14 Men - Of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of their graves, ver. 18 . As he carried the ashes of the images to the graves, to mingle them with dead mens bones, so he carried dead mens bones to the places where the images had been, that both ways idolatry might be rendered loathsome. Dead men and dead gods were indeed much alike, and fittest to go together.