2 Kings 23:15-18

Josiah's Reforms

¹⁵ Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected _b by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, _c who made Israel to sin, _d that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, ₁ reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah. ¹⁶ And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, _e according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things. ¹⁷ Then he said, "What is that monument that I see?" And the men of the city told him, _f "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted ₂ 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 _g of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

1. Cross References
   1 Kings 12:28 - 29
   So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
   1 Kings 12:33
   He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Kings 14:16
   And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Kings 23:6
   And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Kings 13:2
   And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the Lord : 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'
   
5. Cross References
   1 Kings 13:1
   And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.
   1 Kings 13:30
   And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!
   
6. Cross References
   1 Kings 13:11
   Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.
   1 Kings 13:31
   And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.