2 Kings 23:16

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs across on the mount, and he sent and brought the bones out of the tombs and burned them upon the altar and defiled it, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord which the man of God prophesied, who predicted these things [about this altar, naming Josiah before he was born]. [I Kings 13:2-5.]

Cross References

1 Kings 13:32

For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.

2 Kings 23:14

He broke in pieces the pillars (images) and cut down the Asherim and replaced them with the bones of men [to defile the places forever].

Ezekiel 6:5

And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

Matthew 24:35

Sky and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

John 10:35

So men are called gods [by the Law], men to whom God's message came–and the Scripture cannot be set aside or cancelled or broken or annulled–