2 Chronicles 34:5

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2 Chronicles 34:3-7 The Message (MSG)

When he had been king for eight years—he was still only a teenager—he began to seek the God of David his ancestor. Four years later, the twelfth year of his reign, he set out to cleanse the neighborhood of sex-and-religion shrines, and get rid of the sacred Asherah groves and the god and goddess figurines, whether carved or cast, from Judah. He wrecked the Baal shrines, tore down the altars connected with them, and scattered the debris and ashes over the graves of those who had worshiped at them. He burned the bones of the priests on the same altars they had used when alive. He scrubbed the place clean, Judah and Jerusalem, clean inside and out. The cleanup campaign ranged outward to the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and the surrounding neighborhoods—as far north as Naphtali. Throughout Israel he demolished the altars and Asherah groves, pulverized the god and goddess figures, chopped up the neighborhood shrines into firewood. With Israel once more intact, he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:5 King James Version (KJV)

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

2 Chronicles 34:5 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)

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

2 Chronicles 34:5 New Century Version (NCV)

He burned the bones of their priests on their own altars. So Josiah removed idol worship from Judah and Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 34:5 American Standard Version (ASV)

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

2 Chronicles 34:5 New International Version (NIV)

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

2 Chronicles 34:5 New King James Version (NKJV)

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

2 Chronicles 34:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)

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

2 Chronicles 34:5 New Living Translation (NLT)

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

2 Chronicles 34:5 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)

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