2 Chronicles 34:5

American Standard Version

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

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2 Chronicles 34:5 in other translations

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

2 Chronicles 34:5 · World English Bible

2 Chronicles 34:5 in context

  1. 3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.
  2. 4And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
  3. 5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
  4. 6And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.
  5. 7And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.