2 Kings 23:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

As he looked around, he saw graves on the hillside. He had the bones in them dug up and burnt on the altar, so that it could no longer be used. This happened just as God's prophet had said when Jeroboam was standing at the altar, celebrating a festival. Then Josiah saw the grave of the prophet who had said this would happen

Cross References

1 Kings 13:32

I'm sure that everything he said about the altar in Bethel and the shrines in Samaria will happen.”

2 Kings 23:14

He tore down the stone images of foreign gods and cut down the sacred pole used in the worship of Asherah. Then he had the whole area covered with human bones.

Ezekiel 6:5

Dead bodies and bones will be lying around the idols and the altars.

Matthew 24:35

The sky and the earth won't last for ever, but my words will.

John 10:35

You can't argue with the Scriptures, and God spoke to those people and called them gods.