2 Chronicles 34:6
Good News Translation
He did the same thing in the cities and the devastated areas of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far north as Naphtali.

New Revised Standard Version
In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,

Contemporary English Version
He did the same things in the towns and ruined villages in the territories of West Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as the border of Naphtali.

New American Bible
He did likewise in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and in the ruined villages of the surrounding country as far as Naphtali;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he demolished all.

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And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he demolished all.

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2 Chronicles 30:1,10,11 And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that they should come to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the God of Israel, . . .

2 Chronicles 31:1 And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols, and cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the altars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also and Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the children of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.

2 Kings 23:15-20 Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove. . . .

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1 Samuel 13:20,21 So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake. . . .

Proverbs 25:18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Isaiah 7:25 And as for the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.

Context
Josiah Destroys Idolatry
5And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem. 6And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he demolished all.7And when he had destroyed the altars, and the groves, and had broken the idols in pieces, and had demolished all profane temples throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 13:20
So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.

2 Kings 23:15
Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove.

2 Kings 23:19
Moreover all the temples of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

2 Chronicles 34:5
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