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15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place and stamped it small to powder and burned the Asherah pole.

16 And as Josiah turned, he spied the sepulchers that were there on the mount, and sent and took the bones out of the sepulchers and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17 Then he said, “What marker is that which I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the sepulcher of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.”

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