1 Kings 13
1 And, behold, there came a man of God
out of Juda by the word of the Lord to Bæthel, and Jeroboam stood at the altar
to sacrifice. 2 And he cried against
the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the
Lord, Behold, a son is to be born to the house of
David,
aGr. Josias the name to him.Josias by name; and he shall offer upon thee the priests of the high places,
even of them that sacrifice upon thee, and
he shall burn men's bones upon thee.
3 And in that day one shall give a
sign, saying, This is the word which the Lord has
spoken, saying, Behold, the altar is rent, and the fatness upon it shall be
poured out.
4 And it came to pass when king
Jeroboam heard the words of the man of God who called on the altar that was in
Bæthel, that the king stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying, Take
hold of him. And, behold, his hand, which he stretched forth against him,
withered, and he could not draw it back to himself.
5 And the altar was rent, and the
fatness was poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of
God gave by the word of the Lord.
6 And king Jeroboam said to the man of
God, Intreat the Lord thy God, and let my hand
bGr. return to me.be restored to me. And the man of God intreated the Lord, and he restored the
king's hand to him, and it became as before.
7 And the king said to the man of God,
Enter with me into the house, and dine, and I will give thee a gift.
8 And the man of God said to the king,
If thou shouldest give me the half of thine house, I
cGr. will not.would not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread, neither will I drink
water in this place; for thus the Lord charged me by
his word, saying,
9 Eat no bread, and drink no water,
and return not by the way by which thou camest.
10 So he departed by another way, and
returned not by the way by which he came to Bæthel.
11 And there dwelt an old prophet in
Bæthel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God did
on that day in Bæthel, and the words which he spoke to the king: and
dWide variation from the Hebrew.they turned the face of their father.
12 And their father spoke to them,
saying, Which way went he? and his sons shew him the way by which the man of
God who came out of Juda went up.
13 And he said to his sons, Saddle me
the ass: and they saddled him the ass, and he mounted it,
14 and went after the man of God, and
found him sitting under an oak: and he said to him, Art thou the man of God
that came out of Juda? And he said to him, I am.
15 And he said to him, Come with me,
and eat bread. 16 And he said, I
shall not by any means be able to return with thee, neither will I eat bread,
neither will I drink water in this place.
17 For thus the Lord commanded me by
word, saying, Eat not bread there, and drink not water, and return not thither
by the way by which thou camest.
18 And he said to him, I also am a
prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the
word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back to thee into thy house, and let him
eat bread and drink water: but he lied to him.
19 And he brought him back, and he
ate bread and drank water in his house.
20 And it came to pass while they
were sitting at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet that
brought him back; 21 and he spoke to
the man of God that came out of Juda, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Because
thou hast
eGr. embittered.resisted the word of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the
Lord thy God commanded thee, 22 but
hast returned, and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he spoke
to thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, and shalt not drink water;
therefore thy body shall in nowise enter into the
sepulchre of thy fathers.
23 And it came to pass after he had
eaten bread and drunk water, that he saddled the ass for him, and he turned
and departed. 24 And a lion found him
in the way, and slew him; and his body was cast out in the way, and the ass
was standing by it, and the lion also was standing by
the body. 25 And, behold, men
were passing by, and saw the carcase cast in the way,
and the lion was standing near the carcase: and they went in and spoke
of it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26 And
the prophet that turned him back out of the way
heard, and said, This is the man of God who rebelled against the word of the
Lord.fVat. has no verse 27. Alex. reads as follows.
28 And he went and found the body
cast in the way, and the ass and the lion were standing by the body: and the
lion had not devoured the body of the man of God, and had not torn the ass.
29 And the prophet took up the body
of the man of God, and laid it on his ass; and the prophet brought him back to
his city, to bury him in his own tomb,
30 and they bewailed him,
saying, Alas, brother.
31 And it came to pass after he had
lamented him, that he spoke to his sons, saying,
gGr. if I die.Whenever I die, bury me in this tomb wherein the man of God is buried; lay me
by his bones, that my bones may be preserved with his bones.
32 For the word will surely come to
pass which he spoke by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bæthel, and
against the high houses in Samaria.
33 And after
hGr. this word.this Jeroboam turned not from his sin, but he turned and made of part of the
people priests of the high places: whoever would, he
consecrated him, and he became a priest for the high places.
34 And this
iGr. word.thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its
removal from the face of the earth.