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

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. 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 broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, 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.

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.

Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.

This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

“‘ At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.

All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

“ Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

“‘ For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I display my glory will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign Lord.People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground.“‘ After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search.As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog,near a town called Hamonah. And so they will cleanse the land.’

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.

The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.