In 2 Kings 23, we found good King Josiah digging up graves for bones with which to defile the altars and high places that were used for unholy false religions. He stopped at one because the marker caught his attention.
17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth–el.
If you remember back to 1 Kings 13, there was an unnamed man of God who warned King Jeroboam against worshiping false Gods and prophesied that a future king named Josiah would destroy all his pagan paraphernalia. You'll probably also remember how this unnamed man of God was tricked by another prophet into eating and drinking against God's Will, so God had him killed by a lion.
This was his grave.
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.
So they didn't use that guy's bones, or the bones of the prophet who got him killed.
It's too bad they didn't print the words on the sepulchre. We might have learned that guy's name. It's probably written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, wherever that is.
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Originally Posted by Brother V
Israel was taken away in about 722 to Assyria; Judah was taken away in about 586 to Babylon.
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That was the ending I was trying not to give away a few days ago. For those of you who heeded my warning, here is the chart listing the kings of Israel and Judah once again:
Pastor Billy-Reuben