2 Chronicles 34:5
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 the carved images, and the molten images.
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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- BSB
- Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
- KJV
- And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
- WEB
- He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
- ASV
- And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
- DARBY
- and he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
- BLB
- And he burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem,
- ÅB
- og prestenes ben brant han på deres altere. Slik renset han Juda og Jerusalem.
- OTB
- Deretter brente han prestenes ben på deres altere og renset Juda og Jerusalem.
- B1930
- og prestenes ben brente han på deres altere. Således renset han Juda og Jerusalem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 13:2
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.
Read in contextJeremiah 8:1–2
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:
Read in context2 Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:10
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:24
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
Read in context2 Kings 23:20
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
Read in context2 Chronicles 34:7
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
Read in contextNumbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
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