2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
KJV
Et efferri fecit lucum de domo Domini foras Jerusalem in convalle Cedron, et combussit eum ibi, et redegit in pulverem, et projecit super sepulchra vulgi.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐξήνεγκεν τὸ ἄλσος ἐξ οἴκου Κυρίου ἔξωθεν Ἰερουσαλὴμ εἰς τὸν χειμάρρουν Κεδρών, καὶ κατέκαυσεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ χειμάρρῳ Κεδρὼν καὶ ἐλέπτυνεν εἰς χοῦν, καὶ ἔριψεν τὸν χοῦν αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν τάφον τῶν υἱῶν τοῦ λαοῦ.
LXX
And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.
ASV
וַ/יֹּצֵ֣א אֶת הָ/אֲשֵׁרָה֩ מִ/בֵּ֨ית יְהוָ֜ה מִ/ח֤וּץ לִ/ירוּשָׁלִַ֨ם֙ אֶל נַ֣חַל קִדְר֔וֹן וַ/יִּשְׂרֹ֥ף אֹתָ֛/הּ בְּ/נַ֥חַל קִדְר֖וֹן וַ/יָּ֣דֶק לְ/עָפָ֑ר וַ/יַּשְׁלֵךְ֙ אֶת עֲפָרָ֔/הּ עַל קֶ֖בֶר בְּנֵ֥י הָ/עָֽם
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18 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 2:37 — For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
- 2Chr 15:16 — And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook K
- 2Chr 34:4 — And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, a
- 2Kgs 21:7 — And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of
- 2Kgs 23:15 — Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place
- 2Kgs 23:15 — Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place
- Jer 31:40 — And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be
- John 18:1 — When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
- Judg 3:7 — And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.