Verse 15
1 Kings 13:15
Free Bible Version
15
“Come home with me and have something to eat,” he told him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔י/ו לֵ֥ךְ אִתִּ֖/י הַ/בָּ֑יְתָ/ה וֶ/אֱכֹ֖ל לָֽחֶם
English Translation
And he said to me, "Go with me to the house and eat bread."
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Chapter 13 Context
1
The Lord ordered a man of God (Elohim) from Judah to go to Bethel. He arrived just as Jeroboam was s...
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2
He shouted out the Lord's condemnation of the altar: “Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says. A so...
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3
The same day the man of God (Elohim) gave a sign, saying, “This is the sign to prove that the Lord h...
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4
When King Jeroboam heard the condemnation the man of God (Elohim) had shouted out against the altar...
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5
The altar split apart, and the ashes spilled out from it, fulfilling the sign that the man of God (E...
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6
Then the king said to the man of God (Elohim), “Please plead with the Lord your God (Elohim)—pray fo...
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7
Then the king said to the man of God (Elohim), “Come to my home and have a meal so I can give you a...
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8
But the man of God (Elohim) told the king, “Even if you gave me half of everything you own, I still...
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9
The Lord ordered me not to eat or drink anything, and not to return by the way I came.”
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10
So he went a different way—he did not return the way he had come to Bethel.
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11
It so happened that an old prophet lived in Bethel. His sons came and told him everything the man of...
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12
“Which way did he go?” their father asked them. So his sons showed him the way taken by the man of G...
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13
“Saddle up a donkey for me,” he told his sons. They saddled up a donkey and he got on.
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14
He rode after the man of God (Elohim) and found him sitting under an oak tree. “Are you the man of G...
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15
“Come home with me and have something to eat,” he told him.
16
“I can't turn around and go with you, and I won't eat or drink with you in this place,” the man of G...
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17
“The Lord ordered me, saying ‘You must not eat or drink anything there, or return by the way you cam...
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18
But the old prophet told him, “I am also a prophet, just like you. An angel told me God (Elohim) sai...
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19
So the man of God (Elohim) went back with him, and ate and drank in his house.
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20
As they were sitting at the table, a message from the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him b...
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21
He called out to the man of God (Elohim) who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: Becau...
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22
instead you went back and ate and drank in the place where he told you not to, your body will not be...
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23
After the man of God (Elohim) had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back...
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24
But as he went on his way a lion came across him on the road and killed him. His body was left lying...
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25
Some passers-by saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, so they went and le...
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26
When the old prophet who had led the other astray heard what had happened, he said, “It's the man of...
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27
The prophet told his sons, “Saddle up a donkey for me.” So they saddled a donkey,
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and he went and found the body. It was still lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standin...
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29
The prophet picked up the body of the man of God (Elohim), placed it on the donkey, and brought it b...
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30
He laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him, crying, “My poor brother!”
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31
After he'd buried him, he told his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God (Elo...
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32
For the message from the Lord that he gave in condemnation against the altar in Bethel, and against...
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33
But even after all this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways. He went on choosing priests from all...
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34
It was because of this sin that the house of Jeroboam was wiped out, completely destroyed from the f...
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