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Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
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.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

23:15 altar that was at Beth-el. This was the altar at which Jeroboam had proposed to center the worship activities of the ten-tribe nation of Israel which he was establishing (I Kings 12:28,29), and which led Israel away from the Lord. It was by this altar that an unknown prophet had said that the altar and its priests would eventually be destroyed by a man named Josiah (I Kings 13:1-3).


23:16 polluted it. This event was the fulfillment of a remarkable prophecy (I Kings 13:2) uttered 350 years before.


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