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Jeroboam
Warned, Stricken |
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| 1 Kings 13:1 |
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Now behold, there came a man of God from Judah
to Bethel by the word of the LORD, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to
burn incense. |
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| 1 Kings 13:2 |
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He 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, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests
of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on
you.'" |
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| 1 Kings 13:3 |
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Then he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This
is the sign which the LORD has spoken, 'Behold, the altar shall be split apart
and the ashes which are on it shall be poured out.'" |
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| 1 Kings 13:4 |
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Now when the king heard the saying of the man
of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his
hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." But his hand which he stretched out
against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. |
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| 1 Kings 13:5 |
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The altar also was split apart and the ashes
were 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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| 1 Kings 13:6 |
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The king said to the man of God, "Please entreat
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 it
became as it was before. |
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| 1 Kings 13:7 |
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Then the king said to the man of God, "Come
home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." |
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| 1 Kings 13:8 |
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But the man of God said to the king, "If you
were to give me half your house I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread
or drink water in this place. |
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| 1 Kings 13:9 |
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For so it was commanded me by the word of the
LORD, saying, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way
which you came.'" |
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| 1 Kings 13:10 |
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So he went another way and did not return by
the way which he came to Bethel. |
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The
Disobedient Prophet |
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| 1 Kings 13:11 |
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Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and
his sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day
in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they related
to their father. |
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| 1 Kings 13:12 |
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Their father said to them, "Which way did he
go?" Now his sons had seen the way which the man of God who came from Judah had
gone. |
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| 1 Kings 13:13 |
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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 away on it. |
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| 1 Kings 13:14 |
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So he went after the man of God and found him
sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from
Judah?" And he said, "I am." |
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| 1 Kings 13:15 |
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Then he said to him, "Come home with me and
eat bread." |
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| 1 Kings 13:16 |
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He said, "I cannot return with you, nor go with
you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place. |
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| 1 Kings 13:17 |
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For a command came to me by the word of the
LORD, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the
way which you came.'" |
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| 1 Kings 13:18 |
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He said to him, "I also am a prophet like you,
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.'" But he lied to him. |
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| 1 Kings 13:19 |
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So he went back with him, and ate bread in his
house and drank water. |
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| 1 Kings 13:20 |
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Now it came about, as they were sitting down
at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him
back; |
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| 1 Kings 13:21 |
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and he cried to the man of God who came from
Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have disobeyed the command of
the LORD, and have not observed the commandment which the LORD your God commanded
you, |
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| 1 Kings 13:22 |
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but have returned and eaten bread and drunk
water in the place of which He said to you, "Eat no bread and drink no water";
your body shall not come to the grave of your fathers.'" |
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| 1 Kings 13:23 |
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It came about after he had eaten bread and after
he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had
brought back. |
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| 1 Kings 13:24 |
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Now when he had gone, a lion met him on the
way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing
beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body. |
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| 1 Kings 13:25 |
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And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown
on the road, and the lion standing beside the body; so they came and told it in
the city where the old prophet lived. |
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| 1 Kings 13:26 |
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Now when the prophet who brought him back from
the way heard it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the command of
the LORD; therefore the LORD has given 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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| 1 Kings 13:27 |
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Then he spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the
donkey for me." And they saddled it. |
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| 1 Kings 13:28 |
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He went and found his body thrown on the road
with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body; the lion had not eaten
the body nor torn the donkey. |
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| 1 Kings 13:29 |
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So the prophet took up the body of the man of
God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back, and he came to the city of
the old prophet to mourn and to bury him. |
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| 1 Kings 13:30 |
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He laid his body in his own grave, and they
mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" |
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| 1 Kings 13:31 |
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After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons,
saying, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay
my bones beside his bones. |
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| 1 Kings 13:32 |
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For the thing shall surely come to pass 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." |
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| 1 Kings 13:33 |
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After this event Jeroboam did not return from
his evil way, but again he made priests of the high places from among all the
people; any who would, he ordained, to be priests of the high places. |
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| 1 Kings 13:34 |
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This event became sin to the house of Jeroboam,
even to blot it out and destroy it from off the face of the earth. |
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