The Holy Man of Judah was commanded by God to go to Bethel, but told not to eat before he had returned home. In Bethel he healed the hand of Jeroboam and refused the King's wish to feast with him. On his journey home an old prophet in Bethel told the Holy Man of Judah that God had instructed him to allow him to eat. This was a lie, and after the meal the Holy Man was killed on the road by a lion. The Holy Man's ass and the lion stood by the body, and none of the travellers who passed dared go near it. News reached the prophet in Bethel and he went with his ass to collect the body, which the lion had not touched, and put it in his own tomb. He instructed his sons on his death to put his body beside that of the Holy Man