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Summary
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
The bones of men
Bible References
He brake
Exodus 23:24
see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.
Numbers 33:52
see that ye drive out all the inhabiters of the land before you, and destroy their imaginations and all their images of metal, and pluck down all their altars built on hills:
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus ye shall deal with them: overthrow their altars, break down their pillars, cut down their groves and burn their images with fire.
2 Chronicles 34:3
Insomuch that the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a lad, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of hill altars, groves, carved Images, and Images of metal:
Micah 1:7
All her Images shall be broken down and all her winnings shall be burnt in the fire: yea, all her Idols will I destroy. For why? They are gathered out of the hire of a whore, and into a whore's hire shall they be turned again.
The bones of men
2 Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the graves that were in the mount and sent and fetched the bones out of the graves and burnt them upon the altar and polluted it according to the word of the LORD that the man of God had proclaimed, which openly had denounced the same things.
Numbers 19:16
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the fields, or a dead person, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave: shall be unclean seven days.
Jeremiah 8:1
At the same time, sayeth the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests and prophets, yea, and the bones of the citizens of Jerusalem, shall be brought out of their graves
Ezekiel 39:12
Seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Matthew 23:27
Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto painted tombs which appear beautiful outwards: but are within full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.