Josiah replied, "Leave him alone. No one is to disturb his bones." So they preserved his bones undisturbed, along with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

He broke the pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherim, and filled their locations with human bones.

As Josiah turned around, he observed the graves located there on the mountain, so he sent for and recovered the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar to defile it, in keeping with the message from the LORD that the godly man had proclaimed when he was declaring these things.

After he had slaughtered all the priests who served at the high places and burned their bones on those high places, he returned to Jerusalem.