2 Kings 23:14-16

The Voice

¹⁴ He shattered the sacred pillars and chopped down the sacred poles. In their place, he desecrated their sites by contact with corpses.

¹⁵ He tore down the altar at Bethel, the high place—the one erected by Jeroboam (Nebat’s son), the very Jeroboam who caused the Israelites to live sinful lives. He crushed the rocks and pounded them into dust and set fire to the sacred pole.

¹⁶ Josiah turned and observed the graves there on the mountain; and he sent men to gather up the bones and set fire to them on the altar, defiling the altar by contact with corpses exactly as the Eternal One had spoken through the man of God.^[a]