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.