2 KINGS 23:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
As Josiah turned, he spotted the tombs there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, thus defiling it, according to the word of the LORD that the prophet had proclaimed, when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the festival; but he turned and looked up at the grave of the man of God who had proclaimed these things — Josiah's desecration of Bethel's altar includes burning bones from the tombs located there, fulfilling a prophecy made by a man of God during Jeroboam's reign (1 Kings 13:2). The specific fulfillment of three-hundred-year-old prophecy indicates that the word of the LORD, spoken through prophets, remains eternally operative. Josiah's observation of 'the grave of the man of God' suggests reverence for the ancient prophet whose word is now being fulfilled.
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