¹⁰ And when ^[a]a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the ^[b]bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”

Then someone will say, “None.”

And he will say, ^(A)“Hold your tongue! ^(B)For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”

^12 (A)all the valiant men arose and traveled all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and ^(B)burned them there.

²¹ ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, ^(A)I will profane My sanctuary, ^[a]your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the ^[b]delight of your soul; ^(B)and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

³⁹ “As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God: ^(A)“Go, serve every one of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; ^(B)but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.

²⁶ Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, ^(A)I have sworn by My ^(B)great name,’ says the Lord, ‘that ^(C)My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “The Lord God lives.”

⁶ Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; ^(A)neither shall men lament for them, ^(B)cut themselves, nor ^(C)make themselves bald for them.

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 ^(A)word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.