28 and he had departed, he found the dead body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside the dead body. The lion did not eat from the dead body, nor did it harm the donkey.
29 Then the prophet took the dead body of the man of God, and he placed it upon the donkey, and returning, he brought it into the city of the elderly prophet, so that he might mourn for him.
30 And he placed his dead body in his own sepulcher. And they mourned for him, saying: 'Alas! Alas! My brother!'
31 And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: 'When I will have died, bury me in the sepulcher in which the man of God was buried. Place my bones beside his bones.
32 For certainly, the word will arrive, which he predicted by the word of the Lord, against the altar, which is in Bethel, and against all the shrines of the high places, which are in the cities of Samaria.'
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