1 Kings 13:1 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.
1 Kings 13:2 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.
1 Kings 13:3 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.
1 Kings 13:4 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.
1 Kings 13:5 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.
1 Kings 13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man of
God, Entreat 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.
1 Kings 13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home
with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
1 Kings 13:8 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:
1 Kings 13:9 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.
1 Kings 13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the
way that he came to Bethel.
1 Kings 13:11 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.
1 Kings 13:12 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.
1 Kings 13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So
they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
1 Kings 13:14 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.
1 Kings 13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat
bread.
1 Kings 13:16 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:
1 Kings 13:17 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.
1 Kings 13:18 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.
1 Kings 13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in
his house, and drank water.
1 Kings 13:20 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:
1 Kings 13:21 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,
1 Kings 13:22 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 carcass shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1 Kings 13:23 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.
1 Kings 13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way,
and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the
lion also stood by the carcass.
1 Kings 13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcass
cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass: and they came and told it
in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
1 Kings 13:26 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.
1 Kings 13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the
ass. And they saddled him.
1 Kings 13:28 And he went and found his carcass cast in the
way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten
the carcass, nor torn the ass.
1 Kings 13:29 And the prophet took up the carcass 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.
1 Kings 13:30 And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and
they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
1 Kings 13:31 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:
1 Kings 13:32 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.
1 Kings 13:33 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.
1 Kings 13:34 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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