Then Josiah turned around and noticed several tombs in the side of the hill. He ordered that the bones be brought out, and he burned them on the altar at Bethel to desecrate it. (This happened just as the Lord had promised through the man of God when Jeroboam stood beside the altar at the festival.) Then Josiah turned and looked up at the tomb of the man of God who had predicted these things.
Commentaries
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A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah.
The priests of the second order - This is a new exp…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Turned himself. —So that he caught sight of the tombs on the hillside opposite—not on the hill where the high place was.
John Gill
JohnGill
And as Josiah turned himself
From the high place, and the altar at Bethel; for he not only gave orders for the destr…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
Josiah's zeal extended to the cities of Israel within his reach. He carefully preserved the sepulcher of that man of God, who came from Judah to pr…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes