A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

1 Kings 13

¹ And behold, _l a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar _m to make offerings. ² _n And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, _o Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'" ³ And he gave _p a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: 'Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.'" ⁴ And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. ⁵ The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord. ⁶ And the king said to the man of God, _q "Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." And the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before. ⁷ And the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and _r I will give you a reward." ⁸ And the man of God said to the king, _s "If you give me half your house, _t I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place, ⁹ for so was it commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, 'You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came.'" ¹⁰ So he went another way and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.

1. Cross References
   2 Kings 23:17
   Then he said, "What is that monument that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Kings 12:33
   He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Kings 13:32
   For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Kings 23:15 - 16
   Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.
   
5. Cross References
   Judges 6:17
   And he said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 8:8
   Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Plead with the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
   Exodus 9:28
   Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.
   Exodus 10:17
   Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.
   Numbers 21:7
   And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
   Acts 8:24
   And Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.
   
7. Cross References
   1 Samuel 9:7
   Then Saul said to his servant, "But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?
   2 Kings 5:15
   Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.
   
8. Cross References
   Numbers 22:18
   But 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 command of the Lord my God to do less or more.
   Numbers 24:13
   If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak'?
   
9. Cross References
   1 Kings 13:16 - 17
   And he said, "I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.