1 Kings 13:25-27

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ People passed by and saw the body thrown in the road, with the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the town where the old prophet lived.

²⁶ When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him according to the word that the Lord spoke to him.” ²⁷ Then he said to his sons, “Saddle a donkey for me.” So they saddled one,