2 Chronicles 34:5

And, the bones of the priests, burned he upon their altars,—and so purified Judah and Jerusalem:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 threw down before him, the altars of the Baalim, and, the sun-pillars which were on high above them, he hewed down,—and, the Sacred Stems and the carved images and the molten images, brake he in pieces and ground to dust, and tossed over the face of the graves, of them who had been sacrificing unto them.

6also throughout the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even as far as Naphtali,—searched he their houses, round about.

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Cross References

1 Kings 13:2And he made proclamation against the altar, by the word of Yahweh, and said, O altar! altar! Thus, saith Yahweh,—Lo! a son to be born unto the house of David, Josiah his name, who shall sacrifice upon thee the priests of the high-places, who are making a perfume upon thee, and, human bones, shall be burned upon thee;

2 Kings 23:20and he sacrificed all the priests of the high places, who were there, by the altars, and burned human bones thereupon,—and returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:33And Josiah removed all the abominations, out of all the lands which belonged to the sons of Israel, and caused all that were present in Jerusalem to serve, yea to serve, Yahweh their God,—all his days, turned they not aside from following Yahweh, God of their fathers.

Jeremiah 4:14Wash from wickedness thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved,—How long, shall lodge within thee thy wicked devices?

Ezekiel 22:24Son of man, say to her. Thou, art a land, that is not to be rained upon, nor to receive fruitful showers, in the 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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