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Finally, the bones of the priests he burned upon their altars. Thus he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and in the ruined villages as far as Naphtali, Josiah destroyed the altars, crushed the sacred poles and the images into powder, and demolished all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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