Verse 16

2 Kings 23:16

King James Version

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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 (Elohim) proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/יִּ֣פֶן יֹאשִׁיָּ֗הוּ וַ/יַּ֨רְא אֶת הַ/קְּבָרִ֤ים אֲשֶׁר שָׁם֙ בָּ/הָ֔ר וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֗ח וַ/יִּקַּ֤ח אֶת הָֽ/עֲצָמוֹת֙ מִן הַ/קְּבָרִ֔ים וַ/יִּשְׂרֹ֥ף עַל הַ/מִּזְבֵּ֖חַ וַֽ/יְטַמְּאֵ֑/הוּ כִּ/דְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר קָרָא֙ אִ֣ישׁ הָ/אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר קָרָ֔א אֶת הַ/דְּבָרִ֖ים הָ/אֵֽלֶּה

English Translation

And Josiah turned and saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD that the man of God had proclaimed who had proclaimed these words.

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Chapter 23 Context

1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. Focus ↗

2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of... Focus ↗

3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to... Focus ↗

4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers... Focus ↗

5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the... Focus ↗

6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, a... Focus ↗

7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women w... Focus ↗

8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the pri... Focus ↗

9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but t... Focus ↗

10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his... Focus ↗

11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the... Focus ↗

12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made,... Focus ↗

13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corrupt... Focus ↗

14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones o... Focus ↗

15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made... Focus ↗

16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and t...

17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre o... Focus ↗

18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones o... Focus ↗

19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Is... Focus ↗

20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bo... Focus ↗

21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God (Elohim), as... Focus ↗

22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in a... Focus ↗

23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem... Focus ↗

24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all... Focus ↗

25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with... Focus ↗

26 Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was... Focus ↗

27 And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast... Focus ↗

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the ch... Focus ↗

29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates:... Focus ↗

30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and burie... Focus ↗

31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerus... Focus ↗

32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. Focus ↗

33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jeru... Focus ↗

34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned... Focus ↗

35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money accor... Focus ↗

36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerus... Focus ↗

37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. Focus ↗

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Book: 2 Kings
Chapter: Chapter 23 (37 verses)
Version: King James Version

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