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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪上 13:31

埋葬他以後,老先知就對兒子們說:“我死了以後,你們要把我埋葬在神人的墳墓裡,把我的骸骨放在他的骸骨旁邊。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Conscience;   Minister, Christian;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jadon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethel ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Old Prophet, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tombs;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
安 葬 之 後 , 老 先 知 对 他 儿 子 们 说 : 我 死 了 , 你 们 要 葬 我 在   神 人 的 坟 墓 里 , 使 我 的 尸 骨 靠 近 他 的 尸 骨 ,

Contextual Overview

23 After the man of God finished eating and drinking, the prophet put a saddle on his donkey for him, and the man left. 24 As he was traveling home, a lion attacked and killed him. His body lay on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing nearby. 25 Some men who were traveling on that road saw the body and the lion standing nearby. So they went to the city where the old prophet lived and told what they had seen. 26 The old prophet who had brought back the man of God heard what had happened. "It is the man of God who did not obey the Lord 's command," he said. "So the Lord sent a lion to kill him, just as he said he would." 27 Then the prophet said to his sons, "Put a saddle on my donkey," which they did. 28 The old prophet went out and found the body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion still standing nearby. The lion had not eaten the body or hurt the donkey. 29 The prophet put the body on his donkey and carried it back to the city to have a time of sadness for him and to bury him. 30 The prophet buried the body in his own family grave, and they were sad for the man of God and said, "Oh, my brother." 31 After the prophet buried the body, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in this same grave. Put my bones next to his. 32 Through him the Lord spoke against the altar at Bethel and against the places of worship in the towns of Samaria. What the Lord spoke through him will certainly come true."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lay my bones: Numbers 23:10, Psalms 26:9, Ecclesiastes 8:10, Luke 16:22, Luke 16:23

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:32 - the houses 2 Kings 23:17 - It is the sepulchre 2 Kings 23:18 - the bones of the prophet

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying,.... He gave them the following charge:

when I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; as it was his own, it might be reasonably thought they would bury him in it without such a charge; but, lest they should not, he gives it:

lay my bones beside his bones; his view in this was, that when Josiah came to burn the bones of the priests, he would spare the bones of this man of God; and so his, lying by them, and mingled with them, would be spared also, and so it proved, 2 Kings 23:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 13:31. Lay my bones beside his bones — This argues a strong conviction in the mind of the old prophet, that the deceased was a good and holy man of God; and he is willing to have place with him in the general resurrection.


 
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