OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 27

1 Kings 13:27

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He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.

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1 Kings 13:24–30

24

When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

25

Behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the path, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

26

When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who was disobedient to the LORD’s word. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke to him.”

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He said to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.

28

He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body nor mauled the donkey.

29

The prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury him.

30

He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”

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