³⁶ So the prophet said, “Because you have not obeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion^(A) will kill you.” And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.

²⁶ When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who defied^(A) the word of the Lord. The Lord has given him over to the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of the Lord had warned him.”

²¹ He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have defied^(A) the word of the Lord and have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you. ²² You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.’”

²³ When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his donkey for him. ²⁴ As he went on his way, a lion^(B) met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

²² But Samuel replied: