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2 Kings 23:16-17

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23:16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought;¹ he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah² turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.³ 23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet⁴ who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

¹tn Heb “and he sent and took the bones from the tombs.”

²tn Heb “the king”; this has been specified as “King Josiah” in the translation for clarity (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).

³tc The MT is much shorter than this. It reads, “according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.” The LXX has a much longer text at this point. It reads: “[which was proclaimed by the man of God] while Jeroboam stood by the altar at a celebration. Then he turned and saw the grave of the man of God [who proclaimed these words].” The extra material attested in the LXX was probably accidentally omitted in the Hebrew tradition when a scribe’s eye jumped from the first occurrence of the phrase “man of God” (which appears right before the extra material) and the second occurrence of the phrase (which appears at the end of the extra material).

sn This recalls the prophecy recorded in 1 Kgs 13:2.

⁴tn Heb “man of God.”

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