1 Kings 13:22

13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” ¹  Therefore ²  your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” ³ 

1 Kings 13:24-25

13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. ⁴  His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. ⁵  13:25 Some men came by ⁶  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ⁷  They went and reported what they had seen ⁸  in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 13:29

13:29 The old prophet ⁹  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ¹⁰  put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.

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¹ 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.’”

² tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

³ tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”

⁵ tn Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”

⁶ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

⁷ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁹ tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the man of God.”