1 Kings 13:30

30 He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, "¹Alas, 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 He went and found his body thrown on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body; the lion had not eaten the body nor torn the donkey.

29 So the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back, and he came to the city of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him.

30 He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!"

31 After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, "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 thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria."

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 22:18