Verse 5

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.
• 2 Kgs 23:16 : 16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it, just as in the LORD’s message that was announced by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. Then the king turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.
• Jer 8:1-2 : 1 The LORD says,“When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves. 2 They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.