1 Kings 13:21-26

13:21 and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You ¹  have rebelled against the Lord ²  and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you. 13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” ³  Therefore ⁴  your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” ⁵ 

13:23 When the prophet from Judah finished his meal, ⁶  the old prophet saddled his visitor’s donkey for him. ⁷  13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. ⁸  His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. ⁹  13:25 Some men came by ¹⁰  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ¹¹  They went and reported what they had seen ¹²  in the city where the old prophet lived. 13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, ¹³  he said, “It is the prophet ¹⁴  who rebelled against the Lord. ¹⁵  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up ¹⁶  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” ¹⁷ 

[13:21]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 21-22 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 21-22a) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 22b). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.

[13:21]  ² tn Heb “the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord.”

[13:22]  ³ tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”

[13:22]  ⁴ tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

[13:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”

[13:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “and after he had eaten food and after he had drunk.”

[13:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he saddled for him the donkey, for the prophet whom he had brought back.”

[13:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”

[13:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”

[13:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

[13:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:25]  ¹² tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

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

[13:26]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[13:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

[13:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”