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On you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men's bones on you.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign which the LORD has spoken: Look, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The altar also was split apart, 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The king answered the man of God, "Now plead for the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again." The man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The king said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The man of God said to the king, "Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for so was it commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So he went another way, and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. And they also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" Now his sons showed him the way the man of God went, who came from Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I am." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He said, "I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" He lied to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who brought him back; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>but came back, and have 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 tomb of your fathers.'" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Look, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the mouth of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to him." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." They saddled it. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For the saying which he proclaimed 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, will surely happen."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>After this thing Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. He consecrated anyone who wanted to be a priest at the high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/13-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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