1 Paralipomenon 13:24

Nova Vulgata

et, cum abisset, invenit eum leo in via et occidit, et erat cadaver eius proiectum in itinere; asinus autem stabat iuxta illum, et leo stabat iuxta cadaver.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
venitque ad regem, et ait ad eum : Ecce tondentur oves servi tui : veniat, oro, rex cum servis suis ad servum suum.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Qui cum abiisset, invenit eum leo in via, et occidit, et erat cadaver ejus projectum in itinere: asinus autem stabat juxta illum, et leo stabat juxta cadaver.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a lion: 1 Kings 20:36, 2 Kings 2:24, Proverbs 22:13, Proverbs 26:13, Amos 5:19, 1 Corinthians 11:31, 1 Corinthians 11:32, 1 Peter 4:17, 1 Peter 4:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:20 - Some Genesis 37:33 - evil beast Exodus 4:24 - sought Numbers 22:33 - surely 1 Kings 12:31 - an house 2 Kings 17:25 - the Lord sent Proverbs 11:31 - General Isaiah 38:13 - as a lion

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him,.... Perhaps not far from Bethel; and this lion might come out of the same wood the she bears did, that devoured the children that mocked the prophet, as Bishop Patrick conjectures, 2 Kings 2:23

and his carcass was cast in the way; in the high road, where it seems the lion seized him, and he fell:

and the ass stood by it; disregarded and unhurt by the lion, though the prophet was pulled off of the back of him:

the lion also stood by the carcass: not offering to tear it in pieces and devour it, but rather, as if he was the guard of it, to keep off all others from meddling with it; these circumstances are very surprising, and show the thing to be of God; for when the lion had done what he had a commission to do, which was to kill the prophet, he was to do no more.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. A lion met him - and slew him — By permitting himself to be seduced by the old prophet, when he should have acted only on the expressly declared counsel of God, he committed the sin unto death; that is, such a sin as God will punish with the death of the body, while he extends mercy to the soul. See my notes on 1 John 5:16-17.

From the instance here related, we see, as in various other cases, that often judgment begins at the house of God. The true prophet, for receiving that as a revelation from God which was opposed to the revelation which himself had received, and which was confirmed by so many miracles, is slain by a lion, and his body deprived of the burial of his fathers; while the wicked king, and the old fallen prophet, are both permitted to live! If this was severity to the man of God, it was mercy to the others, neither of whom was prepared to meet his judge. Here we may well say, "If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"