2 Chronicles 34:5
New International Version
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem.

New Living Translation
He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their own altars, and so he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

English Standard Version
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Berean Standard Bible
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

King James Bible
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

New King James Version
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

NASB 1995
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

NASB 1977
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
Then Josiah burned the bones of the [pagan] priests on their altars and purged and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

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

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

American Standard Version
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the bones of the Priests who were working for them he dug from their graves, and he brought and he burned them and purified Yehuda and Jerusalem

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon the altars, and purged Juda and Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
Josiah then had the bones of the pagan priests burned on the altars. And so Josiah got rid of the worship of foreign gods in Judah and Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.

English Revised Version
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

Good News Translation
He burned the bones of the pagan priests on the altars where they had worshiped. By doing all this, he made Judah and Jerusalem ritually clean again.

International Standard Version
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, thus purging Judah and Jerusalem.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Literal Standard Version
and he has burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleanses Judah and Jerusalem,

Majority Standard Bible
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

New American Bible
and the bones of the priests he burned upon their altars. Thus he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

NET Bible
He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

New Heart English Bible
He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

World English Bible
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Young's Literal Translation
and the bones of the priests he hath burnt on their altars, and cleanseth Judah and Jerusalem,

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Context
Josiah Destroys Idolatry
4Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.…

Cross References
1 Kings 13:2
And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, "O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: 'A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.'"

2 Kings 23:20
On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.


Treasury of Scripture

And he burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

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1 Kings 13:2
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

2 Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

Jeremiah 8:1,2
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: …

cleansed

2 Chronicles 34:7
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Jeremiah 3:10
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

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2 Chronicles 34
1. Josiah's good reign
3. He destroys idolatry
8. He takes order for the repair of the temple
14. Hilkiah, having found a book of the law,
21. Josiah sends to Huldah to enquire of the Lord
23. Huldah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem, but respite thereof in Josiah's time
29. Josiah, causing it to be read in a solemn assembly, renews the covenant with God














(5) And he burnt . . . upon their altar.--See 2Kings 23:13-14; 2Kings 23:16; 2Kings 23:20 for details. Literally, and bones of priests he burnt. They were bones taken from the graves of the idolatrous priests, who were thus punished, while their altars were irreparably defiled. (For the horror with which such a violation of the dead was then regarded, see Amos 2:1.)

And cleansed (i.e., "purged," 2Chronicles 34:3) Judah and Jerusalem.--This phrase does not occur at all in the parallel account. . . .

Verse 5. - Note herein the striking fulfilment of 1 Kings 13:1-3, of which our parallel (2 Kings 23:12-14, 16-20) gives a more detailed account, especially as regards Israel, though not failing to recognize Judah and Jerusalem's share in the need of purgation and punishment.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then he burned
שָׂרַ֖ף (śā·rap̄)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8313: To be, on fire

the bones
וְעַצְמוֹת֙ (wə·‘aṣ·mō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

of the priests
כֹּֽהֲנִ֔ים (kō·hă·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3548: Priest

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

their altars.
מִזְבְּחוֹתָ֑ם (miz·bə·ḥō·w·ṯām)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4196: An altar

So he cleansed
וַיְטַהֵ֥ר (way·ṭa·hêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2891: To be clean or pure

Judah
יְהוּדָ֖ה (yə·hū·ḏāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

and Jerusalem.
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (yə·rū·šā·lim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel


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