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2 Kings 23:14, 16, 20

2 Kings 23:14 NIV

Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

2 Kings 23:16 NIV

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.

2 Kings 23:20 NIV

Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.