¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely,^(A) if even death separates you and me.”^(B)

¹⁷ The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?”

The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”

¹⁸ “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones^(A).” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet^(B) who had come from Samaria.