1 Kings 13:32 Cross References - NSB

³² »The words that he spoke at Jehovah’s command against the altar in Bethel and against all the places of worship in the towns of Samaria will surely come true.«

³⁰ »‘I will destroy your worship sites. I will cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will view you with disgust.

²⁹ He placed one in Bethel and the other in Dan.

³¹ Jeroboam built worship sites on hilltops. He appointed men who were not descended from Levi to be priests.

² He actually spoke against the altar: »O altar, altar, this is what Jehovah says: ‘A child, whose name will be Josiah, will be born to the family of David. He will slaughter the priests serving at the pagan altars who offer sacrifices on you. He will burn human bones on you.’«

²⁴ Omri bought a hill from Shemer for one hundred and fifty pounds of silver. He fortified the hill and built the city of Samaria on it. He named the city after its former owner, Shemer.

¹⁶ Josiah turned and saw the tombs on the hill. He sent men to take the bones out of the tombs and burn them on the altar to make it unclean. This fulfilled the word of Jehovah announced by the man of God. ¹⁷ »What is that headstone I see over there?« Josiah asked. The men of the town said: »It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah. The one who foretold all these things you have done to the altar of Bethel.« ¹⁸ He said: »Let him be. Do not move his bones.« So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. ¹⁹ Josiah removed all the houses of the high places the kings of Israel built in the towns of Samaria. This provoked Jehovah to anger and he did with them as he had done in Bethel.

¹³ The troops that Amaziah sent back so that they couldn’t go with him into battle raided the towns in Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and took a lot of goods.

¹⁰ The rest of the nations the great and noble Osnappar took over and put in Samaria and the rest of the country over the river:

⁴ He needed to travel through Samaria. ⁵ He arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar. It is near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.