1st Kings Chapter 13 verse 30 Holy Bible
And he laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, `saying', Alas, my brother!
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And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!
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And he laid his corpse in his own sepulchre; and they mourned over him [saying], Alas, my brother!
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And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
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And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
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He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
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and he placeth his carcase in his own grave, and they mourn for him, `Oh, my brother!'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. - And he laid his carcase in his own grave [Matthew 27:60. This was a mark of profound respect (Ruth 1:17; Genesis 23:6)]; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother. [A customary formula in lamentation (Jeremiah 22:18). It hardly implies that "he was mourned and buried as a relative of the family" (Bahr). Seeing that the old prophet was responsible for his death, he could hardly have done less. "It is a cruel courtesy to kill a man and then help him to his grave" (Hall).]
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30-32) They mourned.--The mourning of the old prophet, and the burial of the body in his own sepulchre, probably show some touch of remorse and personal compassion for the victim of his treacherous policy, mingled with the desire of preserving the tomb, which was to be his own last resting-place, from desecration, when the prediction of the prophet of Judah should be accomplished. But, even setting aside the rather prosaic tradition of his attempts to remove any impression made on the mind of Jeroboam, which Josephus has preserved (Ant. viii., 9), it is evident that his policy was only too successful. The messenger of wrath had been enticed to familiar intercourse with the prophet of the new idolatry, and had been publicly proclaimed as his "brother:" probably his death had been used to discredit his warning. The result is seen in the significant notice of 1Kings 13:33 : "After this thing, Jeroboam returned not from his evil way." Hence the seriousness of the disobedience, which played into the hands of wickedness, and the startling severity of the penalty.
