2 Chronicles 34:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Josiah burned the bones of the [idolatrous] priests upon their altars, and so cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

⁵ He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, purifying Judah and Jerusalem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ 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

⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols: and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:5 Cross References

1 Kings 13:2

And he cried against the altar by 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 sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall they burn upon thee.

2 Kings 23:16

And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

2 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 he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:33

And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. All his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:7

And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 3:10

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

Ezekiel 22:24

Son of man, say unto her, thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Numbers 35:33

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land: and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.