1 Raja-raja 13:30-32

13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they ¹  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 ²  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, 13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ³  against the altar in Bethel ⁴  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ⁵  will certainly be fulfilled.”

[13:30]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:32]  ³ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ⁴ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ⁵ 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.