2 Chronicles 34:5

Modern English Version

Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and so cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:2

He cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a child named Josiah will be born in the house of David, and he will sacrifice upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and these men’s bones shall be burned upon you.’ ”

2 Kings 23:16

As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mount. He 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, the one who announced these things.

2 Kings 23:20

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.

2 Chronicles 34:33

So Josiah took away all the detestable things from the lands that belonged to the people of Israel and caused all who were found in Israel to serve the Lord their God. And all his days they did not turn away from the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:7

he broke down the altars, beat Asherah poles and the images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Ezekiel 22:24

Son of man, say to her: You are the land that is not cleansed nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Numbers 35:33

So you will not defile the land which you are in, because blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.