^13:22You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.”⁴⁶ Therefore⁴⁷ your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’ ”⁴⁸

^13:23When the prophet from Judah finished his meal,⁴⁹ the old prophet saddled his visitor’s donkey for him.⁵⁰^13:24As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.⁵¹ His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it.⁵²^13:25Some men came by⁵³ and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it.⁵⁴ They went and reported what they had seen⁵⁵ in the city where the old prophet lived. ^13:26When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news,⁵⁶ he said, “It is the prophet⁵⁷ who rebelled against the Lord.⁵⁸ The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up⁵⁹ and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.”⁶⁰^13:27He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey,” and they did so.⁶¹^13:28He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;⁶² the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. ^13:29The old prophet⁶³ picked up the corpse of the prophet,⁶⁴ put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him. ^13:30He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they⁶⁵ mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”

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Footnotes

46 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.’ ”
47 “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21–22.
48 Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”
49 Heb “and after he had eaten food and after he had drunk.”
50 Heb “and he saddled for him the donkey, for the prophet whom he had brought back.”
51 Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”
52 Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”
53 Heb “Look, men were passing by.”
54 Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
55 The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
56 Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”
57 Heb “the man of God.”
58 Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”
59 Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”
60 Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”
61 Heb “and they saddled [it].”
62 Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
63 Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.
64 Heb “the man of God.”
65 “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).