⁴ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the ^(A)priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring ^(B)out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for ^[a]Asherah, and for all ^[b]the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

¹⁵ Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the ^[a]high place ^(A)which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image. ¹⁶ As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the ^(B)word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. ¹⁷ Then he said, “What gravestone is this that I see?”

So the men of the city told him, “It is ^(C)the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

¹⁸ And he said, “Let him alone; let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of ^(D)the prophet who came from Samaria.

¹⁹ Now Josiah also took away all the ^[b]shrines of the ^[c]high places that were ^(E)in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke ^[d]the Lord to anger; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel. ^20 (F)He ^(G)executed all the priests of the ^[e]high places who were there, on the altars, and ^(H)burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.