25. Some passersby saw the body lying in the road, with the lion standing beside it, and carried the news to the city where the old prophet lived.
26. On hearing it, the prophet who had brought him back from his journey said: “It is the man of God who rebelled against the charge of the Lord. The Lord has delivered him to a lion, which mangled and killed him, according to the word which the Lord had spoken to him.”
27. Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddled it.
28. He went off and found the body sprawled on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body nor had it harmed the donkey.
29. The prophet lifted up the body of the man of God and put it on the donkey, and brought him back to the city to mourn and to bury him.
30. He laid the man’s body in his own grave, and they mourned over it: “Alas, my brother!”