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and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because you have ^(F1)disobeyed the ^(F2)command of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,

but have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, "You are not to eat bread nor drink water"; your dead body will not come to the grave of your fathers.'"

It came about after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

Now when he had gone, ^(C1)a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body.

And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road, and the lion standing beside the body; so they came and told about it in the city where ^(C1)the old prophet had lived.