2 Kings 23:16 meaning and explanation
And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
2 Kings 23:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Josiah, king of Judah, is carrying out his reform by demolishing the altar at Bethel, the shrine Jeroboam had set up centuries earlier. Glancing around, he sees tombs on the hillside and has bones taken from them and burned on the altar, which made the site ritually unclean and unfit for worship.
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