Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 13:30

30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave , and they mourned over him, saying, Alas my brother .

So that threatning, v. 22. was fulfilled; and withal, the memory of his Prophecy was revived and preserved among them, and his very Carkass 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.

The old Prophet and his Sons, and others, whom common humanity taught to lament the untimely death of so worthy a Person.

Which was an usual form of expression in Funeral-lamentations. See Ier. 22. 18.