So that threatening, 1 Kings 13:22, was fulfilled; and withal, the memory of his prophecy was revived and preserved among them, and his very carcass resting there might be a witness of their madness and desperate wickedness, in continuing their abominable idolatry after such an assurance of the dreadful effects of it. They mourned over him; the old prophet, and his sons, and others, whom common humanity taught to lament the untimely death of so worthy a person. Alas, my brother! was a usual form of expression in funeral lamentations. See Jeremiah 22:18.

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