1 Raja-raja 13:24-26

13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. ¹  His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. ²  13:25 Some men came by ³  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ⁴  They went and reported what they had seen ⁵  in the city where the old prophet lived. 13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, ⁶  he said, “It is the prophet ⁷  who rebelled against the Lord. ⁸  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up ⁹  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” ¹⁰ 

[13:24]  ¹ tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”

[13:24]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

[13:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:25]  ⁵ tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

[13:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[13:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

[13:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”