2 Chronicles 34:5

5 And he burned the bones of the priests on the altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 34:5

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.

2 Chronicles 34:5 In-Context

3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he [was] still a boy, he began to seek the God of David his ancestor. And in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherahs, the idols, and the images.

4 And he destroyed before him the altars for the Baals, and he cut down the incense stands above them. And the Asherahs, the idols, and the images he smashed. And he ground [them] to powder and sprinkled [the dust] over the burial sites of those who sacrificed to them.

5 And he burned the bones of the priests on the altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

6 And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,

7 he broke down the altars and the Asherahs and crushed the idols, grinding [them] to dust, and he cut down all the incense stands in all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.