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.

The Message of the Man of God

13 And behold, ^(A)a man of God went from Judah to Bethel ^[a]by the word of the Lord, ^(B)and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. ² Then he cried out against the altar ^[b]by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a child, ^(C)Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be ^(D)burned on you.’ ”

³⁵ If He called them gods, ^(A)to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture ^(B)cannot be broken),

^35 (A)Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

^32 (A)For the ^[a]saying which he cried out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel, and against all the ^[b]shrines on the high places which are in the cities of ^(B)Samaria, will surely come to pass.”