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17 and he asked, “What is that gravestone which I see over there?”

The men of the city told him, “It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you are doing against the altar of Bethel.”

18 Then he said, “Leave him alone. Let no one disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones along with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. 19 Josiah removed all the shrines of the high places which the kings of Israel had made in the cities of Samaria, which provoked the Lord[a] to anger. He did to them just as he did in Bethel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:19 The translation follows the ancient versions. The Hebrew text does not have the words the Lord.