The prophet had his sons saddle his donkey in 1 Kings 13:27. Then he went to find the body of the man of God who had been thrown in the road. We may ask why the prophet was willing to risk the danger of the lion attacking him by seeking the body of his former guest. We cannot answer this question for certain. It may have been the report that the lion did not harm the passersby when they had come to the place, or it might have been that he was fairly confident that by the time he arrived the lion would have long been gone. Neither can we discount the possibility that he was eager to reclaim the donkey he had loaned the man of God.
When he arrived at the place, he found the lion still standing by the body without further signs of molesting it, and a new bit of information is given to us. The donkey that the disobedient servant of God had ridden on was also standing there without having been attacked by the lion.
There are a number of things that exhibit that the supernatural confronts us here. First, even though a considerable period of time had elapsed, the lion had not departed the scene, nor eaten the body of its prey. Neither matter is explainable by natural causes, for there is no circumstance other than God’s power that can explain this behaviour. Then, the donkey had not run away from the lion, nor had the lion harmed it. These matters are also inexplicable without the special providence of God.
27 And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it.