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2 Chronicles 34:5

And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda 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:
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

1 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father: he declined not, neither to the right hand, nor to the left. 3 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things. 4 And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the groves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the fragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them. 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem. 6 And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he demolished all. 7 And when he had destroyed the altars, and the groves, and had broken the idols in pieces, and had demolished all profane temples throughout all the land of Israel, he returned 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 separated the same day the she goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the flock of one colour, that is, of white and black fleece, he delivered into the hands of his sons.
Genesis 34:13
The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully, being enraged at the deflowering of their sister:
Genesis 34:14
We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; which with us is unlawful and abominable.
Leviticus 10:3
And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.
1 Samuel 10:27
But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be able to save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents; but he dissembled as though he heard not.
1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
1 Samuel 17:15
David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father’s flock at Bethlehem.
2 Samuel 13:22
But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.
Psalms 39:9
(38-10) I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.
Luke 15:25
Now his elder son was in the field and when he came and drew nigh 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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