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2 Kings 23:16

Josiah

14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

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BSB
And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
KJV
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
WEB
As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in 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 LORD’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
ASV
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
DARBY
And Josiah turned himself, and saw the sepulchres that were there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah, that the man of God had proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
BLB
And Josiah turned, and he saw the tombs that [were] there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and he burned [them] on the altar and defiled it according to the word of YHWH that the man of God had proclaimed, who had proclaimed these words.
ÅB
Da Josias vendte seg om og så gravene som var der på fjellet, sendte han folk dit og lot benene ta ut av gravene og brenne opp på alteret og gjorde det urent etter Herrens ord, det som den Guds mann hadde utropt, han som ropte ut at dette skulle skje.
OTB
Da Josjia snudde seg, så han gravene som var der på fjellet, og han sendte menn og tok benene fra gravene og brente dem på alteret, og vanhelliget det, i samsvar med Herrens ord som Guds mann hadde forkynt, som hadde forkynt disse tingene.
B1930
Da Josias vendte sig om og så gravene som var der på fjellet, sendte han folk dit og lot benene ta ut av gravene og brenne op på alteret og gjorde det urent efter Herrens ord, det som den Guds mann hadde utropt, han som ropte ut at dette skulde skje.

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  • 1 Kings 13:1–2

    And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

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  • 1 Kings 13:32

    For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

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  • John 10:35

    If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

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  • Matthew 24:35

    Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

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