2 Chronicles 34:5
He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. Thus he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.
1 Kings 13:2
He actually spoke against the altar: O altar, altar, this is what Jehovah says: 'A child, whose name will be Josiah, will be born to the family of David. He will slaughter the priests serving at the pagan altars who offer sacrifices on you. He will burn human bones on you.'
Numbers 35:33
If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.
2 Kings 23:16
Josiah turned and saw the tombs on the hill. He sent men to take the bones out of the tombs and burn them on the altar to make it unclean. This fulfilled the word of Jehovah announced by the man of God.
2 Kings 23:20
He killed all the priests of the high places on the altars. Their bones were burned on the altars. Then the king went back to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:7
Then he tore down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and idols into powder, and cut down all the incense altars everywhere in Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 3:10
Even after all this, Israel's treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart. She was deceitful, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 8:1-2
Jehovah says: At that time the bones of the kings and the leaders of Judah, the bones of the priests and the prophets, and the bones of the others who lived in Jerusalem will be taken out of their graves.
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say to her: 'You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation (outrage) (revulsion).