2 Chronicles 34:6 “Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as…”

2 Chronicles 34:6

Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

World English Bible

He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

American Standard Version

And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.

Geneva Bible 1599

And in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, euen vnto Naphtali, with their maules they brake all round about.

Darby Translation

And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about;

Young's Literal Translation

and in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their tools, round about.

Bible in Basic English

And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.

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Cross references

“in”

2 Chronicles 30:1 2 Chronicles 31:1 2 Kings 23:15–20 2 Chronicles 30:10 2 Chronicles 30:11

2 Chronicles 30:1 · BSB

Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 31:1 · BSB

When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjami…

2 Kings 23:15–20 · BSB

He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

2 Chronicles 30:10 · BSB

And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but the people scorned and mocked them.

2 Chronicles 30:11 · BSB

Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

“mattocks”

Proverbs 25:18 Isaiah 7:25 1 Samuel 13:20 1 Samuel 13:21

Proverbs 25:18 · BSB

Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

Isaiah 7:25 · BSB

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

1 Samuel 13:20 · BSB

Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

1 Samuel 13:21 · BSB

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

7He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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