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2 Kings 23:15
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2 Kings 23:15
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15 (A) But Josiah was not finished yet. At Bethel he destroyed the shrine and the altar that Jeroboam son of Nebat had built and that had caused the Israelites to sin. Josiah had the shrine and the Asherah pole burned and ground into dust.
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2 Kings 23:15
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2 Kings 23:15
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15 Even the altar(A) at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam(B) son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also.
2 Kings 23:16
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2 Kings 23:16
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16 (A) As he looked around, he saw graves on the hillside. He had the bones in them dug up and burned 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.[a]
Then Josiah saw the grave of the prophet who had said this would happen
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- 23.16 just … festival: See 1 Kings 13.1,2.
2 Kings 23:16
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2 Kings 23:16
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16 Then Josiah(A) looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance(B) with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.
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