1 Kings 13:30

30 Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him and said, “Alas, my brother!”

1 Kings 13:30 in Other Translations

30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!

30 And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!"

30 He laid the body in his own grave, crying out in grief, “Oh, my brother!”

30 He placed the body in his own tomb. The people mourned, saying, "A sad day, brother!"

30 Then he laid the corpse in his own grave, and they mourned over him: "Oh, my brother!"

1 Kings 13:30 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 13:30

And he laid his carcass in his own grave
Which he had prepared for himself; for, as he came from Samaria, it could not be the sepulchre of his fathers; and this was showing all the respect, and doing all the honour to him, he well could:

and they mourned over him;
the prophet and his sons: saying,

alas, my brother;
which was an usual form of lamentation at funerals in later times, see ( Jeremiah 22:18 ) .

1 Kings 13:30 In-Context

28 Then he went out and found the body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had neither eaten the body nor mauled the donkey.

29 So the prophet picked 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.

30 Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him and said, “Alas, my brother!”

31 After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

32 For the message he declared by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.”

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 23:17
• 2. Jeremiah 22:18