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1 Kings 13
²⁵ People who passed by saw the body lying in the road and the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported it in Bethel, where the old prophet lived.
²⁶ When the prophet heard the report, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the LORD’s command. The LORD has fulfilled his word by causing the lion to attack and kill him.”
²⁷ Then the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle a donkey for me.” So they saddled a donkey,
²⁸ and he went out and found the body lying in the road. The donkey and lion were still standing there beside it, for the lion had not eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.
²⁹ So the prophet laid the body of the man of God on the donkey and took it back to the town to mourn over him and bury him.
³⁰ He laid the body in his own grave, crying out in grief, “Oh, my brother!”
³¹ Afterward the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
³² For the message the LORD told him to proclaim against the altar in Bethel and against the pagan shrines in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.”
³³ But even after this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil ways. He continued to choose priests from the common people. He appointed anyone who wanted to become a priest for the pagan shrines.
³⁴ This became a great sin and resulted in the utter destruction of Jeroboam’s dynasty from the face of the earth.
1 Kings 14
¹ At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became very sick.