1 Kings 13:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother! Alas, my brothers - This lamentation is very simple, very short, and very pathetic. Perhaps the old prophet said it as much in reference to himself, who had been the cause of his untimely death, as in reference to the man of God, whose corpse he now committed to the tomb. But the words may be no more than the burden of each line of the lamentation which was used on this occasion. See instances of this among the Asiatics in the note on Jeremiah 22:18 (note).