1 Kings 13
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And behold, a a man of God went from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, b and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
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Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, a child, c Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall be d burned on you.' "
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And he gave e a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign which the LORD has spoken: Surely the altar shall split apart, and the ashes on it shall be poured out."
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So it came to pass when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, who cried out against the altar in Bethel, that he stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Arrest him!" Then his hand, which he stretched out toward him, withered, so that he could not pull it back to himself.
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The altar also was split apart, 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.
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Then the king answered and said to the man of God, "Please f entreat the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him, and became as before.
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Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and g I will give you a reward."
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But the man of God said to the king, h "If you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place.
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"For so it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, i 'You shall not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.' "
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So he went another way and did not return by the way he came to Bethel.
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Now an j old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; they also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
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And their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" For his sons had seen which way the man of God went who came from Judah.
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Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it,
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and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. Then he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am."
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Then he said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread."
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And he said, k "I cannot return with you nor go in with you; neither can I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.
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"For I have been told l by the word of the LORD, 'You shall not eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by going the way you came.' "
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He said to him, "I too am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.' " (He was lying to him.)
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So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
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Now it happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back;
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and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD: 'Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,
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'but you came back, ate bread, and drank water in the m place of which the LORD said to you, "Eat no bread and drink no water," your corpse shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.' "
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So it was, after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, the prophet whom he had brought back.
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When he was gone, n a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the corpse.
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And there, men passed by and saw the corpse thrown on the road, and the lion standing by the corpse. Then they went and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
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Now when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the word of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him."
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And he spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled it.
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Then he went and found his corpse thrown on the road, and the donkey and the lion standing by the corpse. The lion had not eaten the corpse nor torn the donkey.
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And the prophet took up the corpse of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back. So the old prophet came to the city to mourn, and to bury him.
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Then he laid the corpse in his own tomb; and they mourned over him, saying, o "Alas, my brother!"
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So it was, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; p lay my bones beside his bones.
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q "For the saying which he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the shrines on the high places which are in the cities of r Samaria, will surely come to pass."
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s After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
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t And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as u to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.
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Cross References
2 Kings 23:17
Then he said, "What gravestone is this that I see?" So the men of the city told him, " It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.
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1 Kings 12:32
Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.
1 Kings 12:33
So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and burned incense.
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2 Kings 23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image.
2 Kings 23:16
As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
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Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.
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Exodus 4:1 - 5
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Judges 6:17
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Isaiah 7:14
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Isaiah 38:7
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John 2:18
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1 Corinthians 1:22
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Exodus 8:8
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and sa...
Exodus 9:28
"Entreat the LORD, that there may be no more mi...
Exodus 10:17
"Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this...
Numbers 21:7
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "...
Jeremiah 37:3
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of S...
Acts 8:24
Then Simon answered and said, "Pray to the Lord...
James 5:16
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pra...
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Cross References
1 Samuel 9:7
Then Saul said to his servant, "But look, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?
2 Kings 5:15
And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, "Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.
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Numbers 22:18
Then Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Numbers 24:13
If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that I must speak'?
1 Kings 13:16
And he said, "I cannot return with you nor go in with you; neither can I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.
1 Kings 13:17
"For I have been told by the word of the LORD, 'You shall not eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by going the way you came.'"
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1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner - not even to eat with such a person.
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1 Kings 13:25
And there, men passed by and saw the corpse thrown on the road, and the lion standing by the corpse. Then they went and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
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Cross References
1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God said to the king, "If you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place.
1 Kings 13:9
"For so it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.'"
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1 Kings 20:35
Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbor by the word of the LORD, "Strike me, please." And the man refused to strike him.
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
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1 Kings 13:9
"For so it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.'"
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1 Kings 20:36
Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, surely, as soon as you depart from me, a lion shall kill you." And as soon as he left him, a lion found him and killed him.
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Jeremiah 22:18
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, Saying, 'Alas, my brother!' or 'Alas, my sister!' They shall not lament for him, Saying, 'Alas, master!' or 'Alas, his glory!
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Ruth 1:17
Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.
2 Kings 23:17
Then he said, "What gravestone is this that I see?" So the men of the city told him, " It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.
2 Kings 23:18
And he said, "Let him alone; let no one move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
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1 Kings 13:2
Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall be burned on you.'
2 Kings 23:16
As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2 Kings 23:19
Now Josiah also took away all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.
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1 Kings 16:24
And he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; then he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill.
John 4:5
So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Acts 8:14
Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
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1 Kings 12:31
He made shrines on the high places, and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
1 Kings 12:32
Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.
2 Chronicles 11:15
Then he appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the demons, and the calf idols which he had made.
2 Chronicles 13:9
Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of other lands, so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of things that are not gods?
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1 Kings 12:30
Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.
2 Kings 17:21
For He tore Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them commit a great sin.
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1 Kings 14:10
Therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.
1 Kings 15:29
And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
1 Kings 15:30
Because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.