2 Chronicles 34:5 meaning and explanation

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

2 Chronicles 34:5, Berean Standard Bible

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Josiah, the young king of Judah, is carrying out his reform after beginning to seek the God of his father David. In the ancient world, burning bones on an altar was the strongest way to defile it, since a corpse made a place ritually unclean.

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