17 Then he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, (A)“It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted[a] these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.” 18 And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones (B)of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:17 Hebrew called

17 The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?”

The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”

18 “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones(A).” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet(B) who had come from Samaria.

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