2 Chronicles 34:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:2

And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.

2 Kings 23:16

Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:

2 Kings 23:20

And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:33

Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:7

He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 3:10

But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

Ezekiel 22:24

Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.

Numbers 35:33

So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.