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2 Kings 23:20
“He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 23
He said, "Let him be! Let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
The king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.
Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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