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And he said: “O altar, O altar! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. And upon you, he will immolate the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon you. And upon you, he will burn up the bones of men.’ ” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he gave a sign on the same day, saying: “This will be the sign that the Lord has spoken. Behold, the altar shall be torn apart, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he had cried out against the altar at Bethel, he extended his hand from the altar, saying, “Apprehend him!” But his hand, which he had extended against him, withered. And he was unable to draw it back to himself. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Also, the altar was torn apart, and the ashes were poured out from the altar, in accord with the sign that the man of God had predicted by the word of the Lord. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat the face of the Lord your God, and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God prayed before the face of the Lord, and the hand of the king was restored to him, and it became as it had been before. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the king said to the man of God: “Come home with me, so that you may dine. And I will give you gifts.” <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the man of God responded to the king: “Even if you will give me one half part of your house, I will not go with you, nor eat bread, nor drink water in this place. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For so it was commanded to me by the word of the Lord, ordering: ‘You shall not eat bread, and you shall not drink water, nor shall you return by the way that you came.’ ” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then he departed by another way, and he did not return along the way that he had traveled to Bethel.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">The Old Prophet and the Man of God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now a certain elderly prophet was living in Bethel. His sons went to him, and they described to him all the works which the man of God had accomplished on that day in Bethel. And they described to their father the words that he had spoken to the king. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And their father said to them, “By which way did he depart?” His sons showed him the way by which the man of God, who had come from Judah, had departed. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And when they had saddled it, he climbed on, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he went away after the man of God. And he found him sitting under a terebinth tree. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he responded, “I am.” <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he said to him, “Come home with me, so that you may eat bread.” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But he said: “I am not able to turn back, nor to go with you. Neither will I eat bread, or drink water in this place. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the Lord has spoken to me, by the word of the Lord, saying, “You shall not eat bread, and you shall not drink water in that place, nor shall you return by the way that you arrived.” <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he said to him: “I, too, am a prophet like you. And an Angel spoke to me, by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Lead him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread, and drink water.’ ” And so he deceived him. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And he led him back with him. Then he ate bread and drank water in his house.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And while they were sitting at table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had led him back. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he cried out to the man of God who had arrived from Judah, saying: “Thus says the Lord: Because you were not obedient to the mouth of the Lord, and you did not keep the commandment that the Lord your God instructed to you, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and you turned back, and ate bread, and drank water in the place where he commanded you that you should not eat bread, nor drink water: your dead body shall not be carried back to the sepulcher of your fathers.” <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And when he had eaten and had drunk, he saddled his donkey for the prophet whom he had led back. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And when he had departed, a lion found him along the way, and it killed him, and his dead body was left upon the road. Now the donkey was standing beside him. And the lion was standing beside the dead body. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And behold, men who were passing by saw the dead body lying in the road, with the lion standing beside the body. And they went and made it widely known in the city where that elderly prophet was living.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And when that prophet, who had led him back from the way, had heard it, he said: “It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord. And the Lord has delivered him to the lion. And it has torn him apart and killed him, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he spoke to him.” <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he said to his sons, “Saddle a donkey for me.” And when they had saddled it, <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and he had departed, he found the dead body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside the dead body. The lion did not eat from the dead body, nor did it harm the donkey. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then the prophet took the dead body of the man of God, and he placed it upon the donkey, and returning, he brought it into the city of the elderly prophet, so that he might mourn for him. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And he placed his dead body in his own sepulcher. And they mourned for him, saying: “Alas! Alas! My brother!” <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: “When I will have died, bury me in the sepulcher in which the man of God was buried. Place my bones beside his bones. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For certainly, the word will arrived, which he predicted by the word of the Lord, against the altar, which is in Bethel, and against all the shrines of the high places, which are in the cities of Samaria.”<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>After these words, Jeroboam did not turn back from his very evil way. Instead, to the contrary, he made priests for the high places out of the least of the people. Whosoever was willing, he filled his hand, and he became a priest of the high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/13-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And for this reason, the house of Jeroboam sinned, and was uprooted, and was wiped from the face of the earth.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>