Ezekiel 6:5
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I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
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And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.