1 Kings 13:26-32 ESV
26 And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word that the Lord spoke to him.” 27 And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it. 28 And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey. 29 And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city to mourn and to bury him. 30 And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!” 31 And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. 32 For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.”

GIVING HONOR APPROPRIATELY.
The man of God was killed according to the word of God. “All the circumstances of this tragic occurrence (the undevoured carcass, the untouched ass, the passengers unmolested by the lion, though standing there) were calculated to produce an irresistible impression that the hand of God was in it.”[from Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Moreover, he had to be buried not in the tomb of the man of God from Judah’s fathers, in fulfillment of the previous prophecy.

The prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city to mourn and to bury him. “How strange it was for the old prophet to look upon the carcass of the dead prophet, and to realize: “My sin was worse than his.” The ways of God’s judgment are sometimes past finding out, and only understandable from eternity.” [ D. Guzik]

The prophet from Bethel lied to him, led him into sin, and prophesied judgment against him. Yet, he laid the corpse in his own tomb. And he said to his sons, “When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.” This was his respect to the man of God from Judah.

“Perhaps he understood that the word he spoke against Jeroboam required a courage he did not have; therefore he confirmed the word of the man of God against Jeroboam and the altar at Bethel.”[D. Guzik] That is, the man’s failure to obey God’s word that caused his life later had not negated his admirable boldness earlier to confront the king the word of God. Unfortunately, in real life, one mistake a person does is remembered clouding over his one hundred and one good deeds done previously.

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