2 Kings 23:14

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Filled their places with the bones of men. Every monument of idolatry in his dominions he in like manner destroyed, and the places where they stood he defiled by strewing them with dead men's bones. The presence of a dead carcass rendered both persons and places unclean in the eyes both of Jews and pagans.