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1 Kings 13:29

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So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.

KJV

And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

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This verse in 1 Kings 13

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

If there by any truth in the vulgar opinion, surely the corpse bled afresh when he touched it, for he was in effect the murderer, and it was but a poor reparation for the injury to inter the dead body.

This site's exposition

took up the carcase of the man of God

on 1 Kings 13:29-30

The old prophet lifts the body himself, carries it home on the ass, and buries it in his own grave, the funeral rites of a man mourning someone he calls brother though they met only once. Gill notes the man of God could not lie in his fathers' sepulchre as the sentence required, since he died far from Judah, so the old prophet's own grave becomes the only honor left to give him. The lament, Alas, my brother, is the ordinary funeral cry of the period, the same form Jeremiah later uses at 22:18.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God,.... The lion perhaps made off as soon as he came, or, if he stayed, the prophet was not afraid of him, seeing he did not attempt to devour the carcass, nor touch the ass, nor do any hurt to those that passed by: and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; to his own city: and the old prophet came to the city to mourn, and to bury him; to perform the funeral rites, according to the custom of the place.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּשָּׂ֨אand he picked up

    vaiyisa'H5375 →656 times

  • הַנָּבִ֜יאthe prophet

    hanavi'H5030 →314 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • נִבְלַ֧ת[the] corpse of

    nivlatH5038 →48 times

  • אִישׁ־[the] man of

    ʾish-H376 →1663 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • וַיַּנִּחֵ֥הוּand he placed him

    vaiyanichehuH5117 →142 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַחֲמ֖וֹרthe donkey

    hachamorH2543 →96 times

  • וַיְשִׁיבֵ֑הוּand he brought back him

    vayshivehuH7725 →1056 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֗אand he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • עִיר֙[the] city of

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • הַנָּבִ֣יאthe prophet

    hanavi'H5030 →314 times

  • הַזָּקֵ֔ן<the> old

    hazakenH2205 →178 times

  • לִסְפֹּ֖דto mourn

    lispodH5594 →30 times

  • וּלְקָבְרֽוֹ׃and to bury him

    ulekaveroH6912 →133 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Disobedient Prophet Is Slain by a Lion — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Disobedient Prophet Is Slain by a Lion — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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