19. Moreover, Josiah removed all the shrines on the high hills that the Israelite kings had constructed throughout the cities of Samaria. These had made the Lord angry. Josiah did to them just what he did at Bethel.
20. He actually slaughtered on those altars all the priests of the shrines who were there, and he burned human bones on them. Then Josiah returned to Jerusalem.
21. The king commanded all the people, "Celebrate a Passover to the Lord your God following what is instructed in this scroll containing the covenant."
22. A Passover like this hadn’t been celebrated since the days when the judges judged Israel; neither had it been celebrated during all the days of the Israelite and Judean kings.
23. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s rule, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.