18. “Leave it as it is,” Josiah ordered. “His bones are not to be moved.”So his bones were not moved, neither were those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
19. In every city of Israel King Josiah tore down all the pagan places of worship which had been built by the kings of Israel, who thereby aroused the Lord's anger. He did to all those altars what he had done in Bethel.
20. He killed all the pagan priests on the altars where they served, and he burnt human bones on every altar. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
21. King Josiah ordered the people to celebrate the Passover in honour of the Lord their God, as written in the book of the covenant.
22. No Passover like this one had ever been celebrated by any of the kings of Israel or of Judah, since the time when judges ruled the nation.
23. Now at last, in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, the Passover was celebrated in Jerusalem.