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22 You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you, “Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore[a] your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”[b]

23 So this is what happened after he had eaten food and drunk water.[c] The old prophet[d] saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. 24 So the prophet from Judah travelled on. Then a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.

There was his body lying on the road, with the donkey standing next to it, and the lion just standing there by the body.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 13:22 tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.
  2. 1 Kings 13:22 tn Heb “will not come to the tomb of your fathers.”
  3. 1 Kings 13:23 tn The MT does not include “water” though it is implied and included in the LXX and Syriac versions.
  4. 1 Kings 13:23 tn Heb “he.”