²⁴ As he went on his way, a lion^(A) met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

²⁹ So the prophet picked 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. ³⁰ Then he laid the body in his own tomb,^(A) and they mourned over him and said, “Alas, my brother!”^(B)