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Chapter 13 |
| 1 | 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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2 | 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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3 | 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. |
| 4 |
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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | And
the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat 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. |
| 7 | And the king said unto the man of God, Come
home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. |
| 8 |
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: |
| 9 |
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. |
| 10
| So he went another way, and returned not by the way that
he came to Bethel. |
| 11 | 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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12 | 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. |
| 13
| And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they
saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, |
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14 | 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. |
| 15 | Then he said
unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. |
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16 | 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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17 | 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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18 | 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. |
| 19 | So he went back with him, and did eat bread
in his house, and drank water. |
| 20 | 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: |
| 21
| 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, |
| 22 |
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 carcass shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. |
| 23 | 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. |
| 24 |
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him:
and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also
stood by the carcass. |
| 25 | And, behold, men passed by, and saw the
carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass: and they came
and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. |
| 26 | 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. |
| 27 | And he spake
to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him. |
| 28 | And
he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the ass and the lion
standing by the carcass: the lion had not eaten the carcass, nor torn the
ass. |
| 29 |
And the prophet took up the carcass 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. |
| 30 | And he laid his carcass in
his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother! |
| 31 |
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: |
| 32 | 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. |
| 33 |
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. |
| 34
| 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. |
