2 Kings 23:16

New International Reader's Version

Then Josiah looked around. He saw the tombs on the side of the hill. He had the bones removed from them. And he burned them on the altar to make it “unclean.” That’s what the Lord had said would happen. He had spoken that message through a man of God. The man had announced those things long before they took place.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:32

I want you to do that because he announced a message from the Lord. He spoke against the altar in Bethel. He also spoke against all the temples that are on the high places. They are in the towns of Samaria. What the man of God said will certainly come true.”

2 Kings 23:14

Josiah smashed the sacred stones. He cut down the poles used to worship the female god named Asherah. Then he covered all those places with human bones.

Ezekiel 6:5

I will put the dead bodies of Israelites in front of those statues. I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away. But my words will never pass away.

John 10:35

We know that Scripture is always true. God spoke to some people and called them ‘gods.’