1 Kings 13:29-32

13:29 The old prophet ¹  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ²  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 ³  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 ⁴  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, 13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ⁵  against the altar in Bethel ⁶  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ⁷  will certainly be fulfilled.”

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¹ tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.

² tn Heb “the man of God.”

³ 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).

⁴ tn Heb “the man of God.”

⁵ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

⁶ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁷ 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.