26 And when the Prophet that brought him back again from the way, heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who hath been disobedient unto the Commandment of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the Lion, which hath rent him and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto him.

27 ¶ And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.

28 And he went and found his body cast in the way, and the ass and the Lion stood by the corpse: and the lion had [a]not eaten the body, nor torn the ass.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 13:28 To declare that this was only the judgment of God: for if the Lion had done it for hunger, he would also have devoured the body.

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