He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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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 images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
And he shattered the pillars, and he cut down the Asherahs, and he filled their place with bones of man.
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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 to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
And he brake 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.
And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
And he brake the images in pieces, and cut downe the groues and filled their places with the bones of men.
And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.
And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;
And he has broken the standing-pillars in pieces, and cuts down the Asherim, and fills their place with bones of men;
He broke the stone pillars into pieces and cut down the Asherah poles and he filled those places with the bones of human beings.
And he shattered the pillars, and he cut down the Asherahs, and he filled their place with bones of man.
And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
He smashed the sacred stone pillars to pieces, chopped down the Asherah poles, and covered the places with human bones.
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 pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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הַמַּצֵּב֔וֹת pillar H4676 occurs in 31 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְשִׁבַּר֙ אֶת הַמַּצֵּב֔וֹת וַיִּכְרֹ֖ת אֶת הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים וַיְמַלֵּ֥א אֶת מְקוֹמָ֖ם עַצְמ֥וֹת אָדָֽם
He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί συντρίβω ὁ στήλη καί ἐκὀλεθρεύω ὁ ἄλσος καί πίμπλημι ὁ τόπος αὐτός ὀστέον ἄνθρωπος
And he broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וְתַבַּר יַת קָמָתָא וְקָץ יַת אֲשֵׁירָתָא וּמַלֵא יַת אַתְרֵהוֹן גַרְמֵי אֱנָשָׁא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is matstsêbâh (“pillar”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 23:14 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.