2 Kings 23:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he slew all the priests of the high places who were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    He slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And he slew{H2076} all the priests{H3548} of the high places{H1116} that were there, upon the altars,{H4196} and burned{H8313} men's{H120} bones{H6106} upon them; and he returned{H7725} to Jerusalem.{H3389}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And he slew{H2076}{(H8799)} all the priests{H3548} of the high places{H1116} that were there upon the altars{H4196}, and burned{H8313}{(H8799)} men's{H120} bones{H6106} upon them, and returned{H7725}{(H8799)} to Jerusalem{H3389}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And all ye prestes of the hye places that were there, offred he vp vpon the altares, and so brent he mens bones theron, and came agayne to Ierusalem.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And he sacrificed all the Priests of the hie places, that were there vpon the altars, and burnt mens bones vpon them, & returned to Ierusalem.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And he sacrifised all the priestes of the high places that were there, euen vpon the aulters, and burnt mens bones vpon them, and returned to Hierusalem.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And he slew all the priests of the high places that [were] there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And he slayeth all the priests of the high places who `are' there by the altars, and burneth the bones of man upon them, and turneth back to Jerusalem.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 11:18 : 18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; they thoroughly broke his altars and images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
  • Exod 22:20 : 20 He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.
  • 2 Kgs 10:25 : 25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come out. And they struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
  • 1 Kgs 13:2 : 2 And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus says the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he offer the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burnt upon you.
  • 1 Kgs 18:40 : 40 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
  • 2 Chr 34:5 : 5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Isa 34:6 : 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  • Zech 13:2-3 : 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered; and also, I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart out of the land. 3 And it shall come to pass that when anyone continues to prophesy, then his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
  • Deut 13:5 : 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to push you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 34:4-7
    4 verses
    84%

    4 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were high above them, he cut down; and the groves, the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and scattered it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

    6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

    7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:4-19
    16 verses
    83%

    4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

    5 And he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas around Jerusalem, those also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

    6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.

    7 And he broke down the houses of the prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

    8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

    9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

    10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.

    11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the officer, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

    12 And the altars that were on the roof 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, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled.

    14 And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15 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 broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

    16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain, and 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.

    17 Then he said, What monument is this that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.

    18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they left his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

    19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

  • 2 Chr 23:17
    74%

    17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

  • 2 Kgs 23:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

    24 Moreover, the mediums and the sorcerers, and the images and idols, and all the abominations that were spotted in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 13:2
    73%

    2 And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus says the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he offer the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burnt upon you.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    73%

    1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

    16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 25:9
    72%

    9 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burned with fire.

  • 2 Chr 28:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 Moreover, he burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

    4 He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    71%

    25 And in every city of Judah, he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 11:18
    71%

    18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; they thoroughly broke his altars and images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

  • Jer 52:13
    71%

    13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire:

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    70%

    19 And they burned the house of God, and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable articles.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    69%

    11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    69%

    33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they did not depart from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    69%

    12 Has not that same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense on it?

  • 2 Kgs 10:26
    69%

    26 And they brought out the images from the house of Baal, and burned them.

  • 2 Chr 30:14
    69%

    14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

  • Jer 19:4
    69%

    4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    69%

    4 Except that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 23:20
    69%

    20 And he took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

  • 2 Kgs 21:5
    68%

    5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 3:27
    68%

    27 Then he took his eldest son, who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel, and they departed from him and returned to their own land.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    68%

    3 For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    68%

    6 And his heart was uplifted in the ways of the LORD; moreover, he took away the high places and groves from Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 13:33
    68%

    33 After this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whoever desired, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    68%

    4 However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    68%

    3 However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.