1 Kings 13:28-34

13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ¹  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. 13:29 The old prophet ²  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ³  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 ⁴  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 ⁵  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, 13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ⁶  against the altar in Bethel ⁷  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ⁸  will certainly be fulfilled.”

A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty

13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; ⁹  he continued to appoint common people ¹⁰  as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. ¹¹  13:34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty ¹²  to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

¹ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.

³ tn Heb “the man of God.”

⁴ 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).

⁵ tn Heb “the man of God.”

⁶ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

⁷ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁸ 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.

⁹ tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”

¹⁰ sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.

¹¹ tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”

¹² tn Heb “house.”