After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
Do not take my soul away with sinners, nor my life with people of bloodshed—
Then I saw the wicked buried—they used to come and go from the holy place, but will soon be forgotten in the very city where they did this. This too is meaningless.
Who can count Jacob’s dust? Who can number a fourth of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Adonai deal with me, and worse, if anything but death comes between me and you!”