“Let him be,” he said, “let no one move his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed together with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
The prophet lifted up the body of the man of God and put it on the donkey, and brought him back to the city to mourn and to bury him.
After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his.