Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 13:31
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher wherein the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
31. lay my bones beside his bones ] Here the LXX. adds ‘in order that my bones may be preserved along with his bones.’ And Josephus expands this idea thus: “for he would not be outraged after his death if he were buried along with him, for the bones would not be recognized.” After which he adds to the story: “And having buried the prophet and given this charge to his sons, being wicked and impious he goes to Jeroboam and says: ‘Why wast thou troubled by the words of that foolish man?’ And when the king related what had happened to the altar and to his own hand, calling the man a truly divine and excellent prophet, he began to efface this opinion of him by calumnious words and by using misleading language about the things which had occurred, to weaken their real import. For he tried to persuade him that his hand had become numb through fatigue in lifting the victims, and that when relieved it had returned to its natural state; and that the altar being new and having so many large victims put on it was broken and fell to pieces by the weight of its load. He also pointed to the death of him who had foretold these signs, how he was slain by the lion.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
That I may be secured from that judgment threatened 1Ki 13:2.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
31. bury me in the sepulchre whereinthe man of God is buriedHis motive in making this request waseither that his remains might not be disturbed when the predictedevents took place (see 2Ki 23:18),or he had some superstitious hope of being benefited at theresurrection by being in the same cave with a man of God.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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, 2Ki 23:18.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
31. My bones beside his bones The old prophet perceived that when his fallen brother’s words came to be fulfilled, the bones of the neighbouring tombs would probably be used to burn upon the altar, and so he took this way to secure his own bones from desecration. Compare 2Ki 23:18.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1Ki 13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
Ver. 31. Lay my bones beside his bones. ] So David Pareus would be buried in the same sepulchre wherein were laid up the bones of his master Hier. Zanchius, A.D. 1591. a
a Parei vita operibus praefixa.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
lay my bones: i.e. lay them not with the bones of those referred to in 1Ki 13:2. Compare 2Ki 23:18.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
lay my bones: Num 23:10, Psa 26:9, Ecc 8:10, Luk 16:22, Luk 16:23
Reciprocal: 2Ki 17:32 – the houses 2Ki 23:17 – It is the sepulchre 2Ki 23:18 – the bones of the prophet
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ki 13:31-32. When I am dead, &c. Though he was a lying prophet, yet he desired to die the death of a true prophet. Gather not my soul with the sinners of Beth-el, but with this man of God: because, what he cried against the altar of Beth-el shall surely come to pass Which he might easily conclude, both from the miracles wrought by the prophet of Judah, and from the wonderful particulars of his death. And against all the high places which are in the cities of Samaria That is, of the kingdom of Samaria, as it was called, though not when this fact was done, yet before these books were written. Samaria was properly the name of one city; but, as it became the capital of the kingdom of Israel, that whole kingdom was so called from it. The prophet of Judah had not indeed threatened as much as the prophet of Beth-el here mentions, (unless he said more than is related 1Ki 13:2,) but it might easily be inferred from what he had predicted. Thus, by the mouth of two witnesses, was it established, if possible, to convince Jeroboam.