1 Kings 13:11-32

11Now one old prophet was living in Bethel. His son came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel and all the words that he had spoken to the king they related to their father.

12Then their father asked them: “Which way did he go?” For his sons had seen which way the man of God that came from Judah went.

13Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me!” So they saddled the donkey for him and he rode away on it.

14Then he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he said.

15“Come home with me,” he said to him, “and eat bread!”

16But he said: “I cannot return with you nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

17For it was said to me by the word of Adonai: You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor should you return back by the way by which you came.”

18So he said to him: “I also am a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me with the word of Adonai saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” (He lied to him.)

19So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.

20Now while they were sitting at the table, the word of Adonai came to the prophet who had brought him back,

21and he cried to the man of God that came from Judah saying, “Thus says Adonai: Because you rebelled against the word of Adonai, and did not keep the commandment which Adonai your God commanded you,

22but turned back, ate bread and drank water in the place of which He said to you, ‘Eat no bread and drink no water,’ your carcass will not enter the tomb of your fathers.”

23So after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet he had brought back.

24But when he was gone, a lion met him along the way and killed him. So his carcass was thrown on the road with both the donkey and the lion standing beside the carcass.

25Then, men passed by and saw the carcass thrown on the road with the lion standing by the carcass. So they came and told it in the town where the old prophet lived.

26Now when the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard it, he said: “It is the man of God who defied the word of Adonai; therefore Adonai gave him to the lion which mauled him and killed him, according to the word Adonai spoke to him.”

27Then he spoke to his sons saying: “Saddle the donkey for me!” So they saddled it.

28Then he went and found his carcass lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing by the carcass. The lion had not eaten the carcass nor mauled the donkey.

29Then the prophet picked up the carcass of the man of God, he laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the town of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him.

30He laid his carcass in his own tomb and they mourned over him saying, “Oy , my brother!”

31After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

32For the message he declared by the word of Adonai against the altar in Bethel, and against all the shrines of the high places which are in the towns of Samaria, will surely come to pass.”