Holy Scripture

2 Chronicles 34:4

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“With zeal immense, Josiah, Himself a prince, acted in such a way As no one before or after him had ever done!—Idols he Dethroned; destroyed unhallowed temples; burned With fire priests on their altars; all the bones Of false prophets were dug up; the altars burned, The carcasses to be consumed did serve For fuel!”
Pseudo-Tertullian — FIVE BOOKS IN REPLY TO MARCION 3.184-191

Source: Septuagint

Original

4And he pulled down the altars of Baalim that were before his face, and the high places that were above them; and he cut down the groves, and the graven images, and broke in pieces the molten images, and reduced them to powder, and cast it upon the surface of the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

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2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

3And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.

— 2 Chronicles 34:4 —

5And he burned the bones of the priests upon the altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

6And he did so in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, and Naphtali, and the places round about them.

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