1 Kings 13
A Lion Kills the Prophet
11 Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel. And his son came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel, and the words which he had spoken to the king; and they told them to their father.
12 And their father said to them, Which way did he go? And his sons saw the way by which the man of God went, which came from Judah.
13 And he said to his sons, Saddle me a donkey. And they saddled the donkey for him, and he sat upon it.
14 And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God which camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
15 And he said unto him, Come with me into the house, and eat bread.
16 And he said, I cannot return with thee, neither will I go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.
17 For I was commanded by the word of the Lord, saying, You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.
18 And he said to him, I am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. (But he lied to him.)
19 And he returned and ate bread in his house and drank water.
20 And it came to pass, while they were at meat, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back.
21 And he cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, saying, Thus says the Lord: Because you have rebelled against the mouth of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you;
22 But you returned and ate bread and drank water in the place of which I told you, ‘You shall not eat bread or drink water; your body will not come into the tomb of your fathers.’
23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread and drunk, that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.
24 And he went, and a lion met him in the way, and killed him; and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it, and the lion stood by the body.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26 And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, ‘It is the man of God who rebelled against the mouth of the Lord; Therefore the Lord gave him over to the lion, which tore him to pieces and killed him, according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken to him.
27 Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it.
28 So he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion that were standing by the carcass had not been devoured by the lion, nor had it torn the donkey.
29 Then the prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and carried it away again. So the old prophet went to the city to mourn and to bury him.
30 And he laid his body in his own tomb; and they mourned for him, saying, “Oh, my brother! 31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake unto his sons, saying, When I die, bury me in the sepulchre where the man of God is buried: and lay my bones beside his bones.
32 For that which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar that is in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
33 After these things Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way; but again he made priests of the high places before the least of the people; and he filled his hand whomsoever he wished, and so he was one of the priests of the high places.
34 And this was a sin unto the house of Jeroboam, to destroy it, and to destroy it from the face of the earth.