2 Chronicles 34:5
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New International Version (©2011)
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their own altars, and so he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, thus purging Judah and Jerusalem.

NET Bible (©2006)
He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

American King James Version
And he burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem.

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

English Revised Version
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon 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.

World English Bible
He burnt 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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:1-33 Josiah's good reign in Judah. - As the years of infancy cannot be useful to our fellow-creatures, our earliest youth should be dedicated to God, that we may not waste any of the remaining short space of life. Happy and wise are those who seek the Lord and prepare for usefulness at an early age, when others are pursuing sinful pleasures, contracting bad habits, and forming ruinous connexions. Who can express the anguish prevented by early piety, and its blessed effects? Diligent self-examination and watchfulness will convince us of the deceitfulness and wickedness of our own hearts, and the sinfulness of our lives. We are here encouraged to humble ourselves before God, and to seek unto him, as Josiah did. And believers are here taught, not to fear death, but to welcome it, when it takes them away from the evil to come. Nothing hastens the ruin of a people, nor ripens them for it, more than their disregard of the attempts made for their reformation. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. The current and tide of affections only turns at the command of Him who raises up those that are dead in trespasses and sins. We behold peculiar loveliness, in the grace the Lord bestows on those, who in tender years seek to know and to love the Saviour. Hath Jesus, the Day-spring from on high, visited you? Can you trace your knowledge of this light and life of man, like Josiah, from your youth? Oh the unspeakable happiness of becoming acquainted with Jesus from our earliest years!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - Note herein the striking fulfilment of 1 Kings 13:1-3, of which our parallel (2 Kings 23:12-14, 16-20) gives a more detailed account, especially as regards Israel, though not failing to recognize Judah and Jerusalem's share in the need of purgation and punishment.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars—A greater brand of infamy could not have been put on idolatrous priests than the disinterment of their bones, and a greater defilement could not have been done to the altars of idolatry than the burning upon them the bones of those who had there officiated in their lifetime.

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Josiah Destroys Idolatry
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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of them that had sacrificed to them. 5And he burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

1 Kings 13:2 By the word of the LORD he cried out against the altar: "Altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: 'A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.'"
2 Kings 23:20 Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.