Study it in the app“Josiah turned and saw the tombs that were there on the mountain; and he sent and took the bones from the tombs and burned them on the altar and made it unclean, according to the word of YHWH that the man of Elohim cried out, who had cried out these things.”
Josiahיֹאשִׁיָּהוּturnedוַיִּפֶןand sawוַיַּרְאthe tombsאֶת הַקְּבָרִיםthatאֲשֶׁרwere thereשָׁםon the mountain;בָּהָרand he sentוַיִּשְׁלַחand tookוַיִּקַּחthe bonesאֶת הָעֲצָמוֹתfrom the tombsמִן הַקְּבָרִיםand burned themוַיִּשְׂרֹףon the altarעַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַand made it unclean,וַיְטַמְּאֵהוּaccording to the wordכִּדְבַרof YHWHיְהוָהthatאֲשֶׁרthe manאִישׁof Elohimהָאֱלֹהִיםcried out,קָרָאwhoאֲשֶׁרhad cried outקָרָאtheseהָאֵלֶּהthings.אֶת הַדְּבָרִים
Josiah
Josiah: a name that, according to the lexicon, means "founded by Yah." He is the king of Judah announced by name in 1 Kings 13:2, who reigned about three hundred years later (2 Kings 22–23); a man in Zechariah 6:10 is also called this.
Where else “yoshiyahu” appearsturn
To turn toward something, someone or God.
Where else “yifen” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “yar” appearstomb
Tomb, grave.
Where else “kevarim” appearsmountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “har” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “yishlach” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikach” appearsbone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsamot” appearsburn
Burn; bake in the fire.
Where else “yisrof” appearsaltar
Altar: a structure of stone or earth on which sacrifices are offered to God.
Where else “mizbeach” appearsbe unclean
To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.
Where else “yetame” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearscry out
To shout to YHWH for help, call on his name.
Where else “kara” appearsWhat is told in 1 Kings 13:1-2.
15Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, who made Israel sin, even that altar and the high place he tore down; and he burned the high place, ground it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
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17He said, “What is that marker that I see?” The men of the city said to him, “It is the tomb of the man of Elohim who came from Judah and cried out these things that you have done on the altar of Bethel.”
