I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to
Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all
You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains a
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, o
And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My cove
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hope
Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, whe
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the
And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named
“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priest
You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorr
And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, an
So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Ma
Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, c