| Jeremiah 8:1
| At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of the princes thereof, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.
| Graves. They might suppose that they would find treasures in them, as the tombs of Semiramis, Cyrus, etc., were thus enriched. This inhumanity seems to have taken place before the last siege, Baruch 2:24. (Calmet) Quaeque carent ventis et solibus ossa Quirini Nefas videre dissipabit insoleas.----- (Horace, epod. 16.) --- Cruelty and avarice cause persecutors to act thus. (Worthington)
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