²⁶ When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news,^[a] he said, “It is the prophet^[b] who rebelled against the Lord.^[c] The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it tore him up^[d] and killed him, in keeping with the Lord’s message that he had spoken to him.” ²⁷ He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it. ²⁸ He went and found the body lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;^[e] the lion had neither eaten the body nor attacked the donkey. ²⁹ The old prophet^[f] picked up the prophet’s^[g] body, put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him. ³⁰ He put the body into his own tomb, and they^[h] mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!” ³¹ After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet^[i] is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, ³² because the message that he announced as the Lord’s message against the altar in Bethel and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north^[j] will certainly be fulfilled.”