1 Kings 13:26-32

13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, ¹  he said, “It is the prophet ²  who rebelled against the Lord. ³  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up ⁴  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” ⁵  13:27 He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey,” and they did so. ⁶  13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ⁷  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. 13:29 The old prophet ⁸  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ⁹  put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him. 13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they ¹⁰  mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!” 13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet ¹¹  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, 13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ¹²  against the altar in Bethel ¹³  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ¹⁴  will certainly be fulfilled.”

[13:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

[13:26]  ² tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:26]  ³ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[13:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

[13:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”

[13:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they saddled [it].”

[13:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.

[13:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:30]  ¹⁰ tn “They” is the reading of the Hebrew text here; perhaps this is meant to include not only the old prophet but his sons (cf. v. 31).

[13:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:32]  ¹² tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ¹³ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.