Verse 30
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
His grave — So that threatening, verse22, was fulfilled; and withal, the memory of his prophecy was revived and preserved among them, and his very carcase resting there, might be a witness of their madness and desperate wickedness, in continuing in their abominable idolatry, after such an assurance of the dreadful effects of it.
They — The old prophet and his sons, and others, whom common humanity taught to lament the untimely death of so worthy a person.
Alas, … — Which was an usual form of expression in funeral-lamentations.
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