¹⁵ Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected ^(A)by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^(B)who made Israel to sin, ^(C)that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned,^[a] 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, ^(D)according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

²⁰ And ^(A)he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, ^(B)and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

^5 (A)He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.