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2 Kings 23:162Kgs.23.16

And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Josias, s'étant tourné et ayant vu les sépulcres qui étaient là dans la montagne, envoya prendre les ossements des sépulcres, et il les brûla sur l'autel et le souilla, selon la parole de l'Eternel prononcée par l'homme de Dieu qui avait annoncé ces choses.

KJV

And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 104 (Migne)

    sperans parci posse ossibus suis, cum veniret tempus, quando secundum illius hominis Dei prophetiam (IV Reg. XXIII, 16, 17), Josias rex Juda in illa terra multorum eruit ossa mortuorum, eisdemque ossibus sacrilega altaria, quae sculptilibus fuerant [Col. 0744B] constituta, funes…

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