18 And he said: 'Permit him. Let no one move his bones.' And his bones have remained untouched, with the bones of the prophet who had arrived from Samaria.
19 Then too, all the shrines of the high places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, Josiah took away. And he acted toward them according to all the works that he had done in Bethel.
20 And all the priests of the high places, who were in that place, he killed upon the altars. And he burned the bones of the men upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.
21 And he instructed all the people, saying: 'Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, according to what has been written in the book of this covenant.'
22 Now no similar Passover was kept, from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, and from all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,
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