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2 Kings 23:18

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“Let him rest,” said Josiah. “Do not let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, along with those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

KJV

And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

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This verse in 2 Kings 23

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And he said, let him alone, let no man move his bones,.... Not take them out of the grave, as they had done the rest: so they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria; the old prophet, whereby his end was answered in being buried with him, 1Ki 13:31.

This site's exposition

What is this monument I see

on 2 Kings 23:17-18

Josiah asks, "What is this monument I see?" The men answer that it is "the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah". Josiah orders, "Do not let anyone disturb his bones", and the bones of "the prophet who had come from Samaria" are left with them.

This site's exposition

Let him rest

The old prophet of 1 Kings 13:11 lived at Bethel, and this verse calls him the prophet who had come from Samaria. Samaria names the northern kingdom by the capital Omri built at 1 Kings 16:24, decades after that prophet died. Both sets of bones stayed in the ground.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This he found written in the book of the law, here called the book of the covenant; for, though the divine authority may deal with us in a way of absolute command, divine grace condescends to federal transactions, and therefore he observed it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The prophet that came out of Samaria - See the note on 1Ki 13:32.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

”What is this marker?” He saw a grave, one side of which was overgrown with thorns and thistles, and whose other side was graced with myrtles and spices.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Kings 23:17:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙and he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • הַנִּ֣יחוּleave alone

    hanichuH5117 →142 times

  • ל֔וֹ<to> him

    lo

  • אִ֖ישׁanyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • יָנַ֣עhe disturb

    yana'H5128 →

  • עַצְמֹתָ֑יוbones his

    ʾatzmotavH6106 →126 times

  • וַֽיְמַלְּטוּ֙and they left undisturbed

    vaymaletuH4422 →95 times

  • עַצְמֹתָ֔יוbones his

    ʾatzmotavH6106 →126 times

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • עַצְמ֣וֹת[the] bones of

    atzmotH6106 →126 times

  • הַנָּבִ֔יאthe prophet

    hanavi'H5030 →314 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בָּ֖אhe had come

    ba'H935 →2568 times

  • מִשֹּׁמְרֽוֹן׃from Samaria

    mishomeronH8111 →109 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 13:31

    After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 23:17–18

      Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced these things…

    • Psalms 26:9

      Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

    • Ecclesiastes 8:10

      Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too…

    • Luke 16:22–23

      One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.

    • Numbers 23:10

      Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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