1 Kings 13:27-34

13:27 He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey,” and they did so. ¹  13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ²  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. 13:29 The old prophet ³  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ⁴  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 ⁵  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 ⁶  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, 13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ⁷  against the altar in Bethel ⁸  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ⁹  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; ¹⁰  he continued to appoint common people ¹¹  as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. ¹²  13:34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty ¹³  to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

[13:27]  ¹ tn Heb “and they saddled [it].”

[13:28]  ² tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:29]  ³ tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.

[13:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:30]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ⁸ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ⁹ 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.

[13:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”

[13:33]  ¹¹ sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.

[13:33]  ¹² 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.”

[13:34]  ¹³ tn Heb “house.”