What title[R.V. monument] is that that[R.V. which] I see? The word is used in Jeremiah 31:21 for -way marks" to guide along a road, and in Ezekiel 39:15 for a -sign" to mark a spot where lay some object needing notice. So that -monument" appears the better rendering, especially as in the reply the people do not speak to Josiah of a -title" but of a -sepulchre".

the sepulchre of the man of God The prophet of Bethel who had deceived him, brought the carcase of the dead man back to Bethel and buried it (1 Kings 13:29-31) in what must at that time have been a general burial-ground, and on which Jeroboam would never have built his altar.

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