2 Chronicles 34 · Verse 5

2 Chronicles 34:5

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:5, King James Version

2 Chronicles 34:5 in other translations

BSBThen he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
WEBHe burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
ASVAnd he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
YLTand the bones of the priests he hath burnt on their altars, and cleanseth Judah and Jerusalem,
DARBYand he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
BBEAnd he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.
WebsterAnd he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

What does 2 Chronicles 34:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 He burnt the bones of the priests - כומריא kumeraiya, the kemarim, says the Targum. See this word explained, 2Kgs 23:5 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

2 Chronicles 34:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְעַצְמוֹת֙ve.'atz.mOtand [the] bones ofH6106
כֹּֽהֲנִ֔יםko.ha.NimpriestsH3548
שָׂרַ֖ףsa.Rafhe burnedH8313
עַל\־'al-onH5921
מִזְבְּחוֹתָ֑םmiz.be.cho.taimaltars theirH4196
וַיְטַהֵ֥רvay.ta.Herand he cleansedH2891
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יְהוּדָ֖הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם\׃ye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 34:5

  • 1 Kings 13:2

    And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.

  • Jeremiah 8:1-2

    At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

  • 2 Kings 23:16

    And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

  • Jeremiah 3:10

    And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 22:24

    Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

  • 2 Kings 23:20

    And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:7

    And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

  • Numbers 35:33

    So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

  • Jeremiah 4:14

    O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
he.
1Ki 13:2; 2Ki 23:16; Jer 8:1,2
cleansed.
7; Nu 35:33; Jer 3:10; 4:14; Eze 22:24

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 34:4

    And they brake 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 brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:5

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

  • 2 Chronicles 34:6

    And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

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2 Chronicles 34:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Quemó además los huesos de los sacerdotes sobre sus altares, y limpió á Judá y á Jerusalem.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et il brûla les os des sacrificateurs sur leurs autels. Et il purifia Juda et Jérusalem.
German
Elberfelder 1871
und die Gebeine der Priester verbrannte er auf ihren Altären. Und so reinigte er Juda und Jerusalem.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ossa præterea sacerdotum combussit in altaribus idolorum, mundavitque Judam et Jerusalem.