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 SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Kings 23:20 in context
2 Kings 23:17–23
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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.”
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He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
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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 Bethel.
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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.
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The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”
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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;
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but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.
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