17. Then he said, “What is this monument 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 to the altar at Bethel.”
18. So he said, “Let him rest. Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
19. Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord. Josiah did the same things to them that he had done at Bethel.
20. He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of the high places who were there, and he burned human bones on the altars. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
21. The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the Lord your God as written in the book of the covenant.”
22. No such Passover had ever been kept from the time of the judges who judged Israel through the entire time of the kings of Israel and Judah.
23. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the Lord in Jerusalem.
24. In addition, Josiah removed the mediums, the spiritists, household idols, images, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this in order to carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the Lord’s temple.