1 Kings 13:30

30 And he laid his corpse in his own sepulchre; and they mourned over him [saying], Alas, 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 And he went and found his corpse cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the corpse: the lion had not eaten the corpse, nor torn the ass.

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

30 And he laid his corpse in his own sepulchre; and they mourned over him [saying], Alas, my brother!

31 And it came to pass after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons saying, When I am dead, bury me in the sepulchre in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

32 For the word that he cried by the word of Jehovah against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria, shall certainly come to pass.