2 Kings 23:14
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

Young's Literal Translation
And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;

King James Bible
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Hebrew
He smashed the sacred pillars
הַמַּצֵּב֔וֹת (ham·maṣ·ṣê·ḇō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 4676: Something stationed, a column, an idol

to pieces,
וְשִׁבַּר֙ (wə·šib·bar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces

cut down
וַיִּכְרֹ֖ת (way·yiḵ·rōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

the Asherah poles,
הָאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים (hā·’ă·šê·rîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 842: A Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same

and covered
וַיְמַלֵּ֥א (way·mal·lê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

the sites
מְקוֹמָ֖ם (mə·qō·w·mām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

with human
אָדָֽם׃ (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

bones.
עַצְמ֥וֹת (‘aṣ·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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