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26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news,[a] he said, “It is the prophet[b] who rebelled against the Lord.[c] The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it tore him up[d] and killed him, in keeping with the Lord’s message that he had spoken to him.” 27 He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it. 28 He went and found the body lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;[e] the lion had neither eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 13:26 tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”
  2. 1 Kings 13:26 tn Heb “the man of God.”
  3. 1 Kings 13:26 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”
  4. 1 Kings 13:26 tn Heb “destroyed him,” or “maimed him.”
  5. 1 Kings 13:28 tn Heb “the body.”