1 Raja-raja 13:23-34

13:23 When the prophet from Judah finished his meal, ¹  the old prophet saddled his visitor’s donkey for him. ²  13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. ³  His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. ⁴  13:25 Some men came by ⁵  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ⁶  They went and reported what they had seen ⁷  in the city where the old prophet lived. 13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, ⁸  he said, “It is the prophet ⁹  who rebelled against the Lord. ¹⁰  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up ¹¹  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” ¹²  13:27 He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey,” and they did so. ¹³  13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ¹⁴  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. 13:29 The old prophet ¹⁵  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ¹⁶  put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him. 13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they ¹⁷  mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!” 13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet ¹⁸  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, 13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ¹⁹  against the altar in Bethel ²⁰  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ²¹  will certainly be fulfilled.”

A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty

13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; ²²  he continued to appoint common people ²³  as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. ²⁴  13:34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty ²⁵  to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

[13:23]  ¹ tn Heb “and after he had eaten food and after he had drunk.”

[13:23]  ² tn Heb “and he saddled for him the donkey, for the prophet whom he had brought back.”

[13:24]  ³ tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”

[13:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”

[13:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

[13:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:25]  ⁷ tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

[13:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[13:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

[13:26]  ¹² tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”

[13:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they saddled [it].”

[13:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.

[13:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:30]  ¹⁷ tn “They” is the reading of the Hebrew text here; perhaps this is meant to include not only the old prophet but his sons (cf. v. 31).

[13:31]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:32]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ²⁰ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ²¹ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[13:33]  ²² tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”

[13:33]  ²³ sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.

[13:33]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”

[13:34]  ²⁵ tn Heb “house.”