3 Kings 13:21
And he cried out to the man of God who came out of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et exclamavit ad virum Dei qui venerat de Juda, dicens : Hæc dicit Dominus : Quia non obediens fuisti ori Domini, et non custodisti mandatum quod præcepit tibi Dominus Deus tuus,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν ἥκοντα ἐξ Ἰούδα λέγων Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Ἀνθ᾽ ὧν παρεπίκρανας τὸ ῥῆμα Κυρίου, καὶ οὐκ ἐφύλαξας τὴν ἐντολὴν ἣν ἐνετείλατό σοι Κύριος ὁ θεός σου,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקְרָ֞א אֶל אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים אֲשֶׁר בָּ֤א מִֽיהוּדָה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה יַ֗עַן כִּ֤י מָרִ֨יתָ֙ פִּ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וְלֹ֤א שָׁמַ֨רְתָּ֙ אֶת הַמִּצְוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוְּךָ֖ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On Care to Be Had for the Dead, Section 9
9. And yet, by reason of that affection of the human heart, whereby “no man ever hateth his own flesh,” if men have reason to know that after their death their bodies will lack any thing which in each man’s nation or country the wonted order of sepulture demandeth, it makes them sorrowful as men; and that which after death reacheth not unto them, they do before death fear for their bodies: so that we find in the Books of Kings, God by one prophet threatening another prophet who had transgressed His word, that his carcase should not be brought into the sepulchre of his fathers. …