American Standard Version
"And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. "
— 2 Chronicles 34:5, American Standard Version
“And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.”
“He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.”
“He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.”
“And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.”
“And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.”
“And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.”
And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
For 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.
And 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.
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.
And 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.
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Jehovah his God.