2 Chronicles 34:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Josiah burned the bones of the [idolatrous] priests upon their altars, and so cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. American Standard Version (1901) And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. Common English Bible He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, purifying Judah and Jerusalem. Catholic Public Domain Version And after that, he burned the bones of the priests upon the altars of the idols. And so did he cleanse Judah and Jerusalem. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols: and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem. |
And he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: A son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.”
As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount, and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the festival; he turned and looked up at the tomb of the man of God who had proclaimed these things.
He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of the high places who were there and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord the God of their ancestors.
he broke down the altars, beat the sacred poles and the images into powder, and demolished all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
Mortal, say to it: You are a land that is not cleansed, not rained upon in the day of indignation.
You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.