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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>1 Kings 13 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > 1 Kings 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/12.htm" title="1 Kings 12">◄</a> 1 Kings 13 <a href="../1_kings/14.htm" title="1 Kings 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/1_kings/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Josiah’s Desecration Predicted by a Man of God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Right when Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn some incense, a man of God arrived in Bethel from Judah in obedience to a command from the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He cursed<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:2 Or rebuked">a</a></span> the altar in this<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:2 Lit. a">b</a></span> message from the LORD: “Hey altar! Hey altar! This is what the LORD says: ‘Pay attention to this! A son is going to be born in David’s dynasty. His name will be Josiah. He will sacrifice the priests who burn incense on you in these high places. Human bones will be burned on you!’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:2 Cf. 2King 23:15-16">c</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Later that same day, he gave them a special display of power<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:3 Or a sign">d</a></span> of what was to come when he said, “Here’s proof<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:3 Or Here’s a sign">e</a></span> that the LORD has decreed this:<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:3 Lit. spoken">f</a></span> Look! This altar will be split apart and the ashes that are on it will spill out.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When he heard the man of God curse<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:4 Or rebuke">g</a></span> the altar in Bethel, the king pointed at the man of God from where the king was standing at the altar. “Seize him!” he ordered. But all of a sudden his hand that he had stretched out dried up, and he could not bring it back to his side! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Also, the altar broke apart and the ashes that were on it spilled out from the altar, providing just the proof that the man of God had predicted in his message from the LORD!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Please!” the king begged the man of God, “Ask the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored for me!” So the man of God asked the LORD, and the king’s hand was immediately and fully restored, just like it had been before. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So the king told the man of God, “Come back to my palace and rest a while. I’d like to give you a reward.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the man of God replied to the king, “Even if you were to offer me half of your house, I wouldn’t go with you, and I’m sure not going to eat even a piece of bread or drink water in this place, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>because the LORD commanded me specifically, ‘You are not to eat bread, drink water, or return by the way that you came to arrive here!’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then he left, returning a different way than the one by which he had traveled to Bethel.</p> <p class="heading">An Old Prophet Rebukes the Man of God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now there was an old prophet who lived in Bethel, and his sons went to him and told him everything that the man of God had accomplished that day in Bethel, including the message that he had delivered to the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Which way did he go?” their father asked him, since his sons had observed the way that the man of God had taken to return to Judah from Bethel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Saddle my donkey for me!” he ordered.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:13 The Heb. lacks he ordered">h</a></span> So they saddled the donkey for him <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he rode off after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:14 or under a terebinth tree; i.e. an oak tree used in idol worship">i</a></span> “You’re the man of God who came from Judah, aren’t you?” the old prophet<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:14 Lit. He">j</a></span> asked him.</p> <p class="reg">“I am,” he replied.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Come home with me and have a meal,” he told him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But he replied, “I can’t go back with you to your home, be in your company, or even eat food or drink water with you in this place, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>because I’ve been given a command in the form of this message from the LORD: ‘You are to eat no food, drink no water, and do not return to Judah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:17 The Heb. lacks to Judah">k</a></span> by traveling the way by which you go there.’”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“I’m a prophet like you,” the old man replied, “and an angel spoke to me and delivered this message from the LORD: ‘Bring him back with you to your house and give him food and water.’” But he was lying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and the man of God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:19 Lit. So he">l</a></span> accompanied the old prophet<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:19 Lit. accompanied him">m</a></span> back to his house, ate some food, and drank some water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Later, while they were sitting down at the table, a message from the LORD was delivered to the prophet who had brought him back, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>so he cried out to the man of God from Judah: “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you disobeyed a command from the LORD and haven’t done what the LORD your God commanded you to do, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>but instead you returned to eat and drink in the very place that he told you “Eat no food and drink no water,” your body will not be buried in the same grave as your ancestors.’”</p> <p class="heading">A Lion Kills the Man of God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>After the meal was over, and the man had eaten food and had drunk water, the old prophet saddled the donkey for him—that is, for the man of God whom he had brought back. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Not long after the man of God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:24 Lit. after he">n</a></span> had left, a lion met him along the road and killed him. His body was left lying in the middle of the road with the donkey standing beside it and with the lion also standing next to the body. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When some men passed by and noticed the body lying in the middle of the road and the lion standing beside the body, they went straight to the city and told what had happened in the city where the old prophet lived.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The prophet who had brought the man of God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:26 Lit. brought him">o</a></span> back from the road learned about it. “It’s the man of God who disobeyed the message from the LORD,” he said. “That’s why the LORD gave him to that lion, which mauled him and killed him, just as the message from the LORD told rebuke him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then he ordered his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they did. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The old prophet<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:28 Lit. He">p</a></span> went out, located the body on the road where the donkey and the lion were standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body nor mauled the donkey. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to the city where the old man lived so he could mourn and bury him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He buried the corpse in his own grave and his family mourned for him, crying out, “Oh, no! My brother!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>After he had buried the man of God,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:31 Lit. buried him">q</a></span> he gave these instructions to his children: “When I die, bury me in the same grave in which the man of God is buried. Place my bones beside his, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>because what he predicted by a message from the LORD against the altar in Bethel and the temples built in the high places of the cities of Samaria will certainly come about.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Despite everything that happened, Jeroboam never did repent of his evil practices. Instead, he appointed even more people to act as priests for the high places. Anyone who wanted to be a priest was ordained to be a priest in the high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>This practice became so sinful that the LORD decided<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:34 The Heb. lacks that the LORD decided">r</a></span> to erase Jeroboam’s dynasty, thus eliminating it from the face of the earth.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 13:2 Or <i>rebuked</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 13:2 Lit. <i>a</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 13:2 Cf. 2King 23:15-16<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 13:3 Or <i>a sign</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 13:3 Or <i>Here’s a sign</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 13:3 Lit. <i>spoken</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 13:4 Or <i>rebuke</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 13:13 The Heb. lacks <i>he ordered</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 13:14 or <i>under a terebinth tree</i>; i.e. an oak tree used in idol worship<br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 13:14 Lit. <i>He</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 13:17 The Heb. lacks <i>to Judah</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 13:19 Lit. <i>So he</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 13:19 Lit. <i>accompanied him</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 13:24 Lit. <i>after he</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 13:26 Lit. <i>brought him</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 13:28 Lit. <i>He</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 13:31 Lit. <i>buried him</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 13:34 The Heb. lacks <i>that the LORD decided</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/1_kings/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>