~ "Don't Disturb His Bones" ~

Even the altar at Bethel,
the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat,
who had caused Israel to sin --
even that altar and high place he demolished.
He burned the high place and ground it to powder,
and burned the Asherah pole also.
Then Josiah looked around,
and when he saw the tombs
that were there on the hillside,
he had the bones removed from them
and burned on the altar to defile it,
in accordance with the word of the Lord
proclaimed by the man of God
who foretold these things.

The king asked, "What is that tombstone I see?"

The men of the city said,
"It marks the tomb of the man of God
who came from Judah
and pronounced against the altar of Bethel
the very things you have done to it."

"Leave it alone," he said.
"Don't let anyone disturb his bones."
So they spared his bones
and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

(II Kings 23:15-18)