2 Chronicles 34:5

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3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still ^ayoung, he began to ^bseek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began ^cto purge Judah and Jerusalem ^dof the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.

4 ^aThey broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them ^band scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

5 He also ^aburned the bones of the priests on their ^baltars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with axes.

7 When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had ^abeaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law

8 ^aIn the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the¹ temple, he sent ^bShaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the ^cgovernor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

9 When they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered ^athe money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the ^bremnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to Jerusalem.

Verse Comparison: 2 Chronicles 34:5

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

Amplified® Bible
Josiah burned the bones of the [idolatrous] priests upon their altars, and so 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.

Darby English Version
and he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Good News Bible
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.

King James Version
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon 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.

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

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

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged 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 English Translation
He burned the bones of the pagan priests¹ on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

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