2 Chronicles 34:5

And he burned the atzmot of the Kohanim upon their mizbechot, and made tahor Yehudah and Yerushalayim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

In Context

4And they demolished the mizbechot of Ba'alim in his presence; and the incense stands erected above them he smashed; and the Asherim, and the pesilim, and the massekhot he demolished and made dust of them, and scattered upon the keverim (graves) of them that had sacrificed unto them.

6And so did he in the towns of Menasheh, and Ephrayim, and Shim'on, even as far as Naphtali, and in their ruins all around.

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Cross References

1 Kings 13:2And he cried against the mizbe'ach by the Devar Hashem, and said, 1 O mizbe'ach, mizbe'ach, thus saith Hashem; 1 Hinei, ben nolad (a son shall be born) unto the Bais Dovid, 1 Yoshiyah shmo; 1 and upon thee shall he offer 1 the kohanim of the + 13:2 idolatrous high places that burn ketoret upon thee, 1 and atzmot adam shall be burned upon thee. + 13:2 2Kgs 23:15-16

2 Kings 23:20And he slaughtered all the kohanim of the high places that were there upon the mizbechot, and burned atzmot adam upon them, and returned to Yerushalayim.

2 Chronicles 34:33And Yoshiyah removed kol hato'evot out of all the territories that pertained to the Bnei Yisroel, and made all that were present in Yisroel to do avodas + 34:33 kodesh service to Hashem Eloheihem. And all his days they veered not from following Hashem, Elohei Avoteihem.

Jeremiah 4:14O Yerushalayim, wash thine lev from rah, 1 that thou mayest be saved. 1 Ad mosai (how long, how much longer) 1 shall thy sinful machsh'vot lodge within thee? 1

Ezekiel 22:24Ben adam, say unto her, Thou art eretz that is not metoharah (cleansed), nor rained upon in the Yom Za'am (Day of Indignation).

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 34:2-8

The Reign of Josiah. ( b. c. 623.) 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and… Read the whole commentary →

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