^32 (A)For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against ^(B)all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of ^(C)Samaria shall surely come to pass.”

²⁴ He bought the hill of ^(A)Samaria from Shemer for two talents^[a] of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built ^(B)Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

^2 (A)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, ^(B)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.’”

³¹ He also made ^(A)temples on high places and ^(B)appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.

³⁰ And ^(A)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and ^(B)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.

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, ^(A)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, ^(B)“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 ^(C)of the prophet who came out of Samaria. ¹⁹ And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were ^(D)in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.

^4 (A)And he had to pass through Samaria. ⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field ^(B)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

¹⁰ and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble ^(A)Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.

¹³ But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, ^(A)from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.

²⁹ And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.