1 Kings 13
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1 And, behold, there came a
man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood
by the altar to burn incense.
2 And he cried against the altar in the
word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child
shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he
offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s
bones shall be burnt upon thee.
3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying,
This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be
rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam
heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel,
that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his
hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in
again to him.
5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes
poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given
by the word of the LORD.
6 And the king answered and said unto the
man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my
hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the
king’s hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
7 And the king said unto the man of God,
Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
8 And the man of God said unto the king,
If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will
I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
9 For so was it charged me by the word of
the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way
that thou camest.
10 So he went another way, and returned
not by the way that he came to Bethel.
11 Now there dwelt an old
prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of
God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king,
them they told also to their father.
12 And their father said unto them, What
way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from
Judah.
13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me
the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
14 And went after the man of God, and
found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of
God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
15 Then he said unto him, Come home with
me, and eat bread.
16 And he said, I may not return with
thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in
this place:
17 For it was said to me by the word of
the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by
the way that thou camest.
18 He said unto him, I am a prophet
also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD,
saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and
drink water. But he lied unto him.
19 So he went back with him, and did eat
bread in his house, and drank water.
20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the
table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
21 And he cried unto the man of God that
came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed
the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God
commanded thee,
22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread
and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat
no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of
thy fathers.
23 And it came to pass, after
he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to
wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by
the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by
it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the
carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and
told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26 And when the prophet that brought him
back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God,
who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered
him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of
the LORD, which he spake unto him.
27 And he spake to his sons, saying,
Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
28 And he went and found his carcase cast
in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not
eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
29 And the prophet took up the carcase of
the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old
prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
30 And he laid his carcase in his own
grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
31 And it came to pass, after he had
buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in
the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his
bones:
32 For the saying which he cried by the
word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the
high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to
pass.
33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not
from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the
high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of
the priests of the high places.
34 And this thing became sin unto the
house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off
the face of the earth.
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