Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Following the LORD's command, the prophet denounced the altar: "O altar, altar, this is what the LORD says: A child, whose name will be Josiah, will be born to the family of David. He will slaughter on you the priests serving at the pagan altars who offer sacrifices on you, and he will burn human bones on you." New Revised Standard Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born to the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he shall burn men's bones upon thee. O altar Deuteronomy 32:1 Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth. Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me. Isaiah 58:1 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins. Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord. Ezekiel 36:1,4 And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: . . . Ezekiel 38:4 And I will turn thee about, and I will put a bit in thy jaws: and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen all clothed with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with spears and shields and swords. Luke 19:40 To whom he said: I say to you that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out. Josiah by name 2 Kings 22:1,2 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath. . . . 2 Kings 23:15-18 Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove. . . . 2 Chronicles 34:1,4-7 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem. . . . Isaiah 42:9 The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them. Isaiah 44:26-28 That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes thereof. . . . Isaiah 46:10 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: Isaiah 48:5-7 I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them. . . . offer 2 Kings 23:15-17 Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove. . . . Context Jeroboam's Hand Withers1And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning incense. 2And he cried out against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said: O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born to the house of David, Josias by name, and he shall immolate upon thee the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he shall burn men's bones upon thee.3And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign, that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it, shall be poured out.… Cross References 1 Kings 13:32 For assuredly the word shall come to pass which he hath foretold in the word of the Lord, against the altar that is in Bethel: and against all the temples of the high places, that are in the cities of Samaria. 2 Kings 23:15 Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove. 2 Kings 23:16 And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things. 2 Chronicles 34:3 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things. 2 Chronicles 34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests on the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem. Jeremiah 1:2 The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign. Jump to Previous Altar Bones Born Burn Burnt Child Cried David High House Incense Josiah Offer Places Priests Sacrifice WordJump to Next Altar Bones Born Burn Burnt Child Cried David High House Incense Josiah Offer Places Priests Sacrifice WordLinks 1 Kings 13:2 NIV1 Kings 13:2 NLT 1 Kings 13:2 ESV 1 Kings 13:2 NASB 1 Kings 13:2 Bible Apps 1 Kings 13:2 Biblia Paralela 1 Kings 13:2 Chinese Bible 1 Kings 13:2 French Bible 1 Kings 13:2 German Bible Alphabetical: A against altar and be Behold bones born burn burned by cried David He here high house human incense is Josiah LORD make name named now O of offerings On out places priests sacrifice said says shall son the This thus to what who will word you OT History: 1 Kings 13:2 He cried against the altar by (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |