2 Kings 23:17
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.
16 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.
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.
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Then he said, “What monument is that which 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 against the altar of Bethel.”
- ASV
- Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
- DARBY
- Then he said, What tombstone is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
- BLB
- And he said, “What [is] this monument that I see?” And the men of the city said to him, “[It is] the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
- ÅB
- Så sa han: Hva er det for en stenstøtte jeg ser der borte? Byens menn svarte: Det er gravstedet til den Guds mann som kom fra Juda og ropte ut over alteret i Betel at det skulle skje som du nå har gjort.
- OTB
- Så sa han, "Hva er dette monumentet som jeg ser?" Og mennene i byen fortalte ham, "Det er graven til Guds mann som kom fra Juda, og forkynte disse tingene som du har gjort mot alteret i Betel."
- B1930
- Så sa han: Hvad er det for en stenstøtte jeg ser der borte? Byens menn svarte: Det er gravstedet til den Guds mann som kom fra Juda og ropte ut over alteret i Betel at det skulde skje som du nu har gjort.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 13:1
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.
Read in context1 Kings 13:30–31
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
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