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2 Kings 23: 15-17 > Josiah fulfills prophecy
| King Josiah, fulfills prophecy in 1 Kings 13 |
| Read more about King Josiah in Prophets and Kings, Chapter 32 and Chapter 33 |
| 2 Kings 23: 15 - 17 ( King James Version ) |
| Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image. |
| verse 16 > As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the alter, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. |
| verse 17 > Then he said, "What gravestong is this that I see?" So the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the alter of Bether." |
| 1 Kings 13: 1 - 3 ( prophecy about Josiah ) |
| And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. |
| v. 2 > And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. |
| v. 3 > And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that [are] upon it shall be poured out. |
| Text Quoted in Spirit of Prophecy |
| The king's bold defiance of God in thus setting aside divinely appointed institutions was not allowed to pass unrebuked. Even while he was officiating and burning incense during the dedication of the strange altar he had set up at Bethel, there appeared before him a man of God from the kingdom of Judah, sent to denounce him for presuming to introduce new forms of worship. The prophet "cried against the altar, . . . and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. Prophets and Kings, page 101.3 Read entire Chapter 7 Note: This prophecy fulfilled 235 years later. 2 Kings 23: 15 - 17 Read about it page 402.4 inChapter 33 |
| "O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee." 1 Kings 13:2. This announcement had been accompanied by a sign that the word spoken was of the Lord. {PK 402.1} {RH, July 29, 1915 par. 8} |