1 Kings 13:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So the prophet from Judah travelled on. Then a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.There was his body lying on the road, with the donkey standing next to it, and the lion just standing there by the body.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 20:36 : 36 So the prophet said to him,“Because you have disobeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.
  • 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them. Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.
  • Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”
  • Prov 26:13 : 13 The sluggard has said,“There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!”
  • Amos 5:19 : 19 Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
  • 1 Cor 11:31-32 : 31 But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
  • 1 Pet 4:17-18 : 17 For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 13:25-30
    6 verses
    91%

    25Then some men came passing by and saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing next to the body. They went and reported what they had seen in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, he said,“It is the prophet who rebelled against the LORD. The LORD delivered him over to the lion and it tore him up and killed him, in keeping with the LORD’S message that he had spoken to him.”

    27He told his sons,“Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it.

    28He went and found the body lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; the lion had neither eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.

    29The old prophet picked up the prophet’s body, put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.

    30He put the body into his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying,“Ah, my brother!”

  • 1 Kgs 20:36-37
    2 verses
    82%

    36So the prophet said to him,“Because you have disobeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.

    37He found another man and said,“Wound me!” So the man wounded him severely.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22-23
    2 verses
    82%

    22You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you,“Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”

    23So this is what happened after he had eaten food and drunk water. The old prophet saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

  • Num 22:21-23
    3 verses
    74%

    21So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

    22God Opposes Balaam Then God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Now he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him.

    23And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, so the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. But Balaam beat the donkey, to make her turn back to the road.

  • 1 Kgs 13:10-14
    5 verses
    74%

    10So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

    11Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. When his sons came home, they told him everything the prophet had done in Bethel that day. And they told their father all the words that he had spoken to the king.

    12Their father asked them,“Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.

    13He then told his sons,“Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it

    14and took off after the prophet, whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him,“Are you the prophet from Judah?” He answered,“Yes, I am.”

  • Judg 14:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey.

    9He scooped it up with his hands and ate it as he walked along. When he returned to his father and mother, he offered them some and they ate it. But he did not tell them he had scooped the honey out of the lion’s carcass.

  • Num 22:32-33
    2 verses
    72%

    32The angel of the LORD said to him,“Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.

    33The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”

  • Num 22:27
    72%

    27When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.

  • Num 22:25
    71%

    25And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pressed herself into the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he beat her again.

  • Nah 2:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

    11Taunt against the Once-Mighty Lion Where now is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?

    12The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

    13Battle Cry of the Divine Warrior“I am against you!” declares the LORD of Heaven’s Armies:“I will burn your chariots with fire; the sword will devour your young lions; you will no longer prey upon the land; the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

  • Ezek 19:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5“‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

    6He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25When they first moved in, they did not worship the LORD. So the LORD sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.

    26The king of Assyria was told,“The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.”

  • Job 4:11
    70%

    11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

  • Judg 14:5
    70%

    5Samson went down to Timnah. When he approached the vineyards of Timnah, he saw a roaring young lion attacking him.

  • Num 23:24
    70%

    24Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”

  • Jer 22:19
    69%

    19He will be left unburied just like a dead donkey. His body will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.’”

  • Prov 26:13
    69%

    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!”

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

    8I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs– I will rip open their chests. I will devour them there like a lion– like a wild animal would tear them apart.

  • Amos 5:19
    69%

    19Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

  • 2 Kgs 10:12
    69%

    12Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

  • Prov 22:13
    69%

    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

  • 2 Pet 2:16
    69%

    16yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).

  • Ezek 19:3
    69%

    3She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

  • 1 Kgs 19:21
    68%

    21Elisha went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
    68%

    20This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

  • Exod 22:10
    68%

    10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,

  • Jer 5:6
    68%

    6So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the rift valley they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.

  • Isa 11:7
    68%

    7A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.

  • 2 Kgs 4:24
    68%

    24She saddled the donkey and told her servant,“Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”