Jeremiah 8:1

At that time, Declareth Yahweh, Shall they bring forth, The bones of the kings of Judah, and The bones of his princes, and The bones of the priests, and The bones of the prophets, and The bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Out of their graves,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

In Context

2And shall spread them out—To the sun, and To the moon, and To all the host of the heavens, Whom they have loved, And whom they have served, And after whom they have walked, And whom they have sought, And to whom they have bowed themselves down,—They shall not be gathered, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they be.

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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.

Jeremiah 7:32Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When it shall not be called any more—The Topheth, nor The valley of Ben-hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter,—And they shall bury in Topheth, for want of place;

Ezekiel 6:5And I will lay the carcases of the sons of Israel before their manufactured gods,— And will scatter your bones round about your altars.

Amos 2:1Thus, saith Yahweh, Because of three transgressions of Moab, and because of four, will I not turn it back,—Because he burned the bones of the King of Edom to lime,

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:1

The prophet proceeds, in this chapter, both to magnify and to justify the destruction that God was bringing upon this people, to show how grievous it would be and yet how righteous. I. He represents the judgments coming as so very terrible that death should appear so as most to be dreaded and yet should be desired, ver. 1-3 . II. He aggravates the wretched stupidity and wilfulness of this people as that which brought this ruin upon them, ver. 4-12 . III. He describes the great confusion and consternation that the… Read the whole commentary →

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