²²Instead, you returned and ate a meal in a place he had ordered you not to eat in. Because of this you will be killed, and your body will not be buried in your family grave.”

²³After they had finished eating, the old prophet saddled the donkey for the prophet from Judah, ²⁴who rode off. On the way, a lion met him and killed him. His body lay on the road, and the donkey and the lion stood beside it. ²⁵Some men passed by and saw the body on the road, with the lion standing near by. They went on into Bethel and reported what they had seen.

²⁶When the old prophet heard about it, he said, “That is the prophet who disobeyed the Lord’s command! And so the Lord sent the lion to attack and kill him, just as the Lord said he would.” ²⁷Then he said to his sons, “Saddle my donkey for me.” They did so, ²⁸and he rode off and found the prophet’s body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion still standing by it. The lion had not eaten the body or attacked the donkey. ²⁹The old prophet picked up the body, put it on the donkey, and brought it back to Bethel to mourn over it and bury it. ³⁰He buried it in his own family grave, and he and his sons mourned over it, saying, “Oh my brother, my brother!”

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