2 Kings 23:17

Then he said, What title that that I see? And the men of the city told him, the sepulchre of the man of Elohim, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you hast done against the altar of Bethel.

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

15 Moreover the altar that at Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, stamped small to powder, and burned the grove.

16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Yahuah which the man of Elohim proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17 Then he said, What title that that I see? And the men of the city told him, the sepulchre of the man of Elohim, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you hast done against the altar of Bethel.

18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

19 And all the houses also of the high places that in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

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