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

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 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.

You must not worship the gods of these nations or serve them in any way or imitate their evil practices. Instead, you must utterly destroy them and smash their sacred pillars.

This is what you must do. You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols.

Then Josiah turned around and noticed several tombs in the side of the hill. He ordered that the bones be brought out, and he burned them on the altar at Bethel to desecrate it.( This happened just as the Lord had promised through the man of God when Jeroboam stood beside the altar at the festival.) Then Josiah turned and looked up at the tomb of the man of God who had predicted these things.

“ In that day,” says the Lord,“ the enemy will break open the graves of the kings and officials of Judah, and the graves of the priests, prophets, and common people of Jerusalem.They will spread out their bones on the ground before the sun, moon, and stars— the gods my people have loved, served, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up again or buried but will be scattered on the ground like manure.

All her carved images will be smashed. All her sacred treasures will be burned. These things were bought with the money earned by her prostitution, and they will now be carried away to pay prostitutes elsewhere.”

And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who was killed with a sword or who died a natural death, or if someone touches a human bone or a grave, that person will be defiled for seven days.

It will take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies and cleanse the land.Everyone in Israel will help, for it will be a glorious victory for Israel when I demonstrate my glory on that day, says the Sovereign Lord.“ After seven months, teams of men will be appointed to search the land for skeletons to bury, so the land will be made clean again.Whenever bones are found, a marker will be set up so the burial crews will take them to be buried in the Valley of Gog’s Hordes.( There will be a town there named Hamonah, which means‘ horde.’) And so the land will finally be cleansed.

During the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David. Then in the twelfth year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem, destroying all the pagan shrines, the Asherah poles, and the carved idols and cast images.He ordered that the altars of Baal be demolished and that the incense altars which stood above them be broken down. He also made sure that the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images were smashed and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines.

“ What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs— beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity.Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Then someone who is ceremonially clean must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. That person must sprinkle the water on the tent, on all the furnishings in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent; also on the person who touched a human bone, or touched someone who was killed or who died naturally, or touched a grave.

“ You must burn their idols in fire, and you must not covet the silver or gold that covers them. You must not take it or it will become a trap to you, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.Do not bring any detestable objects into your home, for then you will be destroyed, just like them. You must utterly detest such things, for they are set apart for destruction.