And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the idol poles, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Statues is more proper than the Protestant "images "which would rather be torn.
Dead is not expressed in the Hebrew or Septuagint, but must be understood. (Haydock)
The pagans had the same idea of their impurity: incest at funere classem. (Virgil, Æneid vi.)
