18. Josiah replied, “Then leave it alone. Don't dig up his bones.” So they did not disturb his bones or the bones of the old prophet from Israel who had also been buried there.
19. Some of the Israelite kings had made the Lord angry by building pagan shrines all over Israel. So Josiah sent troops to destroy these shrines just as he had done to the one in Bethel.
20. He killed the priests who served at them and burnt their bones on the altars.After all that, Josiah went back to Jerusalem.
21. Josiah told the people of Judah, “Celebrate Passover in honour of the Lord your God, just as it says in The Book of God's Law.”
22. This festival had not been celebrated in this way since kings ruled Israel and Judah.
23. But in Josiah's eighteenth year as king of Judah, everyone came to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover.
24. Josiah got rid of every disgusting person and thing in Judah and Jerusalem—including magicians, fortune-tellers, and idols. He did his best to obey every law written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the Lord's temple.
25. No other king before or after Josiah tried as hard as he did to obey the Law of Moses.