Jeremiah 8:1

Good News Translation (US Version)

“At that time the bones of the kings and of the officials of Judah, as well as the bones of the priests, of the prophets, and of the other people who lived in Jerusalem, will be taken out of their graves.

Cross References

Ezekiel 6:5

I will scatter the corpses of the people of Israel; I will scatter their bones all around the altars.

Amos 2:1

The Lord says, “The people of Moab have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They dishonored the bones of the king of Edom by burning them to ashes.

Ezekiel 37:1

I felt the powerful presence of the Lord, and his spirit took me and set me down in a valley where the ground was covered with bones.

2 Kings 23:20

He killed all the pagan priests on the altars where they served, and he burned human bones on every altar. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 23:16

Then Josiah looked around and saw some tombs there on the hill; he had the bones taken out of them and burned on the altar. In this way he desecrated the altar, doing what the prophet had predicted long before during the festival as King Jeroboam was standing by the altar. King Josiah looked around and saw the tomb of the prophet who had made this prediction.

1 Kings 13:2

Following the Lord's command, the prophet denounced the altar: “O altar, altar, this is what the Lord says: A child, whose name will be Josiah, will be born to the family of David. He will slaughter on you the priests serving at the pagan altars who offer sacrifices on you, and he will burn human bones on you.”

2 Kings 9:37

Her remains will be scattered there like dung, so that no one will be able to identify them.’”

Psalm 53:5

But then they will become terrified, as they have never been before, for God will scatter the bones of the enemies of his people. God has rejected them, and so Israel will totally defeat them.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they have said these things will be killed in the same way. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to all of them—including their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will make them pay for their wickedness.”

Ezekiel 6:4

The altars will be torn down and the incense altars broken. All the people there will be killed in front of their idols.