2 Kings 23:15-17

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁵ He even tore down the altar at Bethel^(A) and the high place^(B) that had been made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.^{(C) 16} As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar.^(D) He defiled it according to the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God^[a] who proclaimed these things.^{(E) 17} Then he said, “What is this monument I see?”

The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar at Bethel.”^(F)