Jeremiah 8:1

New Century Version

“ ‘The Lord says: At that time they will remove from their tombs the bones of Judah’s kings and officers, priests and prophets, and the people of Jerusalem.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:2

The Lord had commanded the man of God to speak against the altar. The man said, “Altar, altar, the Lord says to you: ‘David’s family will have a son named Josiah. The priests for the places of worship now make their sacrifices on you, but Josiah will sacrifice those priests on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’ ”

2 Kings 23:16

When he turned around, he saw the graves on the mountain. He had the bones taken from the graves, and he burned them on the altar to ruin it. This happened as the Lord had said it would through the man of God.

2 Kings 23:20

He killed all the priests of those places of worship; he killed them on the altars and burned human bones on the altars. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 9:37

Her body will be like manure on the field in the land at Jezreel. No one will be able to say that this is Jezebel.’ ”

Psalm 53:5

The wicked are filled with terror where there had been nothing to fear. God will scatter the bones of your enemies. You will defeat them, because God has rejected them.

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom the prophets speak will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem. There they will die from hunger and from an enemy’s sword. And no one will be there to bury them, or their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. I will punish them.

Ezekiel 37:1

I felt the power of the Lord on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones.

Ezekiel 6:4

Your altars will be destroyed and your incense altars broken down. Your people will be killed in front of your idols.

Ezekiel 6:5

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

Amos 2:1

This is what the Lord says: “For the many crimes of Moab, I will punish them. They burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.