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Literal Standard Version

2 Chronicles 34:5

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ephraim;   Simeon;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dead, the;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Josiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Kidron (1);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Josiah ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hin'nom;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Kidron, the Brook;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
Hebrew Names Version
He burnt the bones of the Kohanim on their altars, and purged Yehudah and Yerushalayim.
King James Version
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
English Standard Version
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
New Century Version
He burned the bones of their priests on their own altars. So Josiah removed idol worship from Judah and Jerusalem,
New English Translation
He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.
Amplified Bible
Then Josiah burned the bones of the [pagan] priests on their altars and purged 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.
World English Bible
He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also he burnt the bones of the Priests vpon their altars, and purged Iudah & Ierusalem.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he 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.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, thus cleansing Y'hudah and Yerushalayim.
Darby Translation
and he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
Easy-to-Read Version
Josiah even burned the bones of the priests who had served the Baal gods on their own altars. This is how he destroyed idols and idol worship from Judah and Jerusalem.
George Lamsa Translation
And the bones of the priests who served them, he dug out of their graves and brought them and burned them, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
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.
Lexham English Bible
And he burned the bones of the priests on the altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
Literal Translation
And he burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the bones of the prestes brent he vpo the altares, and so clesed he Iuda & Ierusale,
American Standard Version
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he burnt the bones of the priestes vpon the aulters of them, and clensed Iuda and Hierusalem:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
King James Version (1611)
And hee burnt the bones of the priests vpon their altars, and cleansed Iudah and Ierusalem.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon the altars, and purged Juda and Jerusalem.
English Revised Version
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ferthermore he brente the boonys of preestis in the auteris of idols, and he clenside Juda and Jerusalem.
Update Bible Version
And 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.
New King James Version
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed 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.
New Life Bible
He burned the bones of their religious leaders on their altars, and made Judah and Jerusalem free from worshiping false gods.
New Revised Standard
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the bones of the priests, burned he upon their altars, - and so purified 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.
Revised Standard Version
He also 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,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Contextual Overview

1Josiah [is] a son of eight years in his reigning, and he has reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem, 2and he does that which is right in the eyes of YHWH, and walks in the ways of his father David, and has not turned aside [to] the right or left. 3And in the eighth year of his reign (and he [is] yet a youth), he has begun to seek for the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he has begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4And they break down the altars of the Ba‘alim before him, and he has cut down the images that [are] on high above them, and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images, he has broken and beaten small, and strews [them] on the surface of the graves of those sacrificing to them, 5and he has burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleanses Judah and Jerusalem,6and in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their tools, all around. 7And he breaks down the altars and the Asherim, and he has beaten down the carved images very small, and he has cut down all the images in all the land of Israel, and turns back to Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he: 1 Kings 13:2, 2 Kings 23:16, Jeremiah 8:1, Jeremiah 8:2

cleansed: 2 Chronicles 34:7, Numbers 35:33, Jeremiah 3:10, Jeremiah 4:14, Ezekiel 22:24

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:20 - burned Ezekiel 6:4 - and I Hosea 10:8 - their altars

Cross-References

Genesis 30:35
and he turns aside during that day the striped and the spotted male goats, and all the speckled and the spotted female goats, everyone that [has] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he gives into the hand of his sons,
Genesis 34:13
And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled their sister Dinah),
Genesis 34:14
and say to them, "We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who has a foreskin, for it [is] a reproach to us.
Leviticus 10:3
And Moses says to Aaron, "It [is] that which YHWH has spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honored"; and Aaron is silent.
1 Samuel 10:27
and the sons of worthlessness have said, "How can this one save us?" And they despise him, and have not brought a present to him; and he is as one being deaf.
1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel says to Jesse, "Are the young men finished?" And he says, "Yet the youngest has been left; and behold, he delights himself among the flock"; and Samuel says to Jesse, "Send and take him, for we do not turn around until his coming in here."
1 Samuel 17:15
and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.
2 Samuel 13:22
and Absalom has not spoken with Amnon either evil or good, for Absalom is hating Amnon, because that he humbled his sister Tamar.
Psalms 39:9
I have been mute, I do not open my mouth, || Because You have done [it].
Luke 15:25
And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars,.... On which they sacrificed, in detestation of their idolatry, and to deter from it; and this he did according to the prophecy of him, above three hundred and fifty years before:

and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem; from idolatry, and all the monuments of it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 34:5. He burnt the bones of the priests — כומריא kumeraiya, the kemarim, says the Targum. See this word explained, 2 Kings 23:5.


 
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