2 Chronicles 34:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars.  So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:2

The man of God cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord: ‘Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says, “A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.” ’

Ezekiel 22:24

‘Son of man, say to her, “You are a land that has not been cleansed,  that has not received rain in the day of indignation.”

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart,   Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart   #– #only in pretence.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.

2 Chronicles 34:7

He tore down the altars, and he smashed the Asherah poles and the carved images to powder. He chopped down all the shrines throughout the land of Israel and returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:20

He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of those high places,  and he burned human bones on the altars.  Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:16

As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar.  He defiled it according to the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God  who proclaimed these things.

Numbers 35:33

‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land,  and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

2 Chronicles 34:33

So Josiah removed everything that was detestable from all the lands belonging to the Israelites,  and he required all who were present in Israel to serve the Lord their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the Lord, the God of their ancestors.