^5 (A)And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, ^(B)and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

8 “At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. ² And they shall be spread ^(A)before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. ^(B)And they shall not be gathered or buried. ^(C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.

¹⁶ And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, ^(A)according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

¹⁴ And he broke in pieces the ^(A)pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.