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1 Kings 13
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with
me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- So he went another way, and returned not by the way that
he came to Bethel.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they
saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
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- 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.
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- Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his
house, and drank water.
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- 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:
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- 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,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And
they saddled him.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they
mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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