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He brokeוְשִׁבַּרthe standing stones,אֶת הַמַּצֵּבוֹתcut downוַיִּכְרֹתthe Asherahs,אֶת הָאֲשֵׁרִיםand filledוַיְמַלֵּאtheir placesאֶת מְקוֹמָםwith humanאָדָםbones.עַצְמוֹת
2 Kings 23:14
Study it in the app“He broke the standing stones, cut down the Asherahs, and filled their places with human bones.”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Kings 23:14, word by word
- He brokeשִׁבַּרshibar
break
To break something to pieces.
Where else “shibar” appears- the standing stonesמַּצֵּבוֹתmatsevot
standing stone
Standing stone: a stone set upright as a memorial of something, of a meeting with God or of a covenant. Later laws forbid the standing stones of Canaanite worship, which were objects of worship.
Where else “matsevot” appears- cut downיִּכְרֹתyichrot
cut down
To cut a tree or branch with an axe to get timber.
Where else “yichrot” appears- the Asherahsאֲשֵׁרִיםasherim
Asherah
Asherah: a Canaanite goddess, and the pole or sacred tree that stood for her beside the altars.
Where else “asherim” appears- and filledיְמַלֵּאyemale
fill
To take up all the space of something, or to give someone all it can hold.
Where else “yemale” appears- their placesמְקוֹמָmekoma
place
A place, a spot.
Where else “mekoma” appears- with humanאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- bonesעַצְמוֹתatsmot
bone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsmot” appears
The context
13The high places that were facing Jerusalem, which were to the right of the Mount of Destruction, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Astarte, the detestable thing of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king made unclean.
14 · This verse (above)
15Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, who made Israel sin, even that altar and the high place he tore down; and he burned the high place, ground it to dust, and burned the Asherah.