12:023:015 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel,
and the high place
which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
had
made,
both that altar and the high place he brake down, and
burned
the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and
burned
the grove.
12:023:016 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied
the sepulchres that
were
there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out
of
the
sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted
it,
according to the word of the lord which the man
of God
proclaimed,
who proclaimed these words.
12:023:017 Then he said, What title is that that I
see? And the men of
the
city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God,
which
came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou
hast
done against the altar of Bethel.
12:023:018 And he said, Let him alone; let no man
move his bones. So they
let
his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that
came
out
of Samaria.
12:023:019 And all the houses also of the high places
that were in the
cities
of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke
the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them
according
to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
12:023:020 And he slew all the priests of the high
places that were there
upon
the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them,
and
returned
to Jerusalem.
12:023:021 And the king commanded all the people,
saying, Keep the
passover
unto the lord your God, as it is written in the
book
of
this covenant.
12:023:022 Surely there was not holden such a passover
from the days of
the
judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the
kings
of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
12:023:023 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah,
wherein this
passover
was holden to the lord in Jerusalem.
12:023:024 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits,
and the wizards,
and
the images, and the idols, and all the abominations
that
were
spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah
put
away, that he might perform the words of the law which
were
written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in
the
house
of the lord.
12:023:025 And like unto him was there no king before
him, that turned to
the
lord with all his heart, and with all his soul,
and with
all
his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither
after
him arose there any like him.
12:023:026 Notwithstanding the lord turned not
from the fierceness of his
great
wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,
because
of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked
him
withal.


