2 Kings 23:15–20

¹⁵He even tore down the altar at Bethel ^xand the high place ^ythat Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made. Then he burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah. ^z16As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar. ^aHe defiled it according to the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God ^bwho proclaimed these things. ^c17Then he said, “What is this monument I see?”

The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar at Bethel.” ^d

¹⁸So he said, “Let him rest. Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. ^e

¹⁹Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord. ^fJosiah did the same things to them that he had done at Bethel. ²⁰He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of the high places ^gwho were there, and he burned human bones on the altars. ^hThen he returned to Jerusalem.