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16 (A) As he looked around, he saw graves on the hillside. He had the bones in them dug up and burned on the altar, so that it could no longer be used. This happened just as God's prophet had said when Jeroboam was standing at the altar, celebrating a festival.[a]

Then Josiah saw the grave of the prophet who had said this would happen 17 (B) and he asked,[b] “Whose grave is that?”

Some people who lived nearby answered, “It belongs to the prophet from Judah who told what would happen to this altar.”

18 Josiah replied, “Then leave it alone. Don't dig up his bones.” So they did not disturb his bones or the bones of the old prophet from Israel who had also been buried there.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 23.16 just … festival: See 1 Kings 13.1,2.
  2. 23.16,17 said when Jeroboam … asked: One ancient translation; Hebrew “said. 17 Then Josiah asked.”
  3. 23.18 old prophet … there: See 1 Kings 13.11-32.

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