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1 Kings 13:30

Grief

28 and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.

29 So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”

31 After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

32 for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

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BSB
Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”
KJV
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
WEB
He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
ASV
And he laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
DARBY
And he laid his corpse in his own sepulchre; and they mourned over him [saying], Alas, my brother!
BLB
And he laid the corpse in his own tomb, and they mourned over him: “Alas, my brother!”
ÅB
Han la hans lik i sin egen grav, og de holdt sørgehøytid over ham og ropte: Ve, min bror!
OTB
Og han la hans døde kropp i sin egen grav, og de sørget over ham og sa, “Å, min bror!”
B1930
Han la hans lik i sin egen grav, og de holdt sørgehøitid over ham og ropte: Ve, min bror!

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  • Jeremiah 22:18

    Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’

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  • Acts 8:2

    God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.

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  • 1 Kings 14:13

    All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.

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