Jeremiah 8:1

New American Bible - revised edition

At that time—oracle of the Lord—the bones of the kings and princes of Judah, the bones of the priests and the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will be brought out of their graves

Cross References

1 Kings 13:2

He cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord: “Altar, altar, thus says the Lord: A child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, who shall slaughter upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and they shall burn human bones upon you.”

2 Kings 23:16

When Josiah turned and saw the graves there on the mountainside, he ordered the bones taken from the graves and burned on the altar, and thus defiled it, according to the Lord’s word proclaimed by the man of God as Jeroboam stood by the altar on the feast day. When the king looked up and saw the grave of the man of God who had proclaimed these words,

2 Kings 23:20

He slaughtered upon the altars all the priests of the high places that were there, and burned human bones upon them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 9:37

The corpse of Jezebel shall be like dung in the field in the confines of Jezreel, so that no one can say: This was Jezebel.”

Psalm 53:5

Do they not know better, those who do evil, who feed upon my people as they feed upon bread? Have they not called upon God?

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness.

Ezekiel 37:1

The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he led me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me in the center of the broad valley. It was filled with bones.

Ezekiel 6:4

Your altars shall be laid waste, your incense stands smashed, and I will throw your slain down in front of your idols.

Ezekiel 6:5

Yes, I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols, and scatter your bones around your altars.

Amos 2:1

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king,