1 Kings 13 (NET)

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1 Kings 13:1¹Just then a prophet arrived from Judah with the Lord’ s message for Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:32-33 2 Kgs 23:17 1 Thess 4:15 Jer 25:3 Jer 32:29 1 Kgs 12:22 1 Kgs 13:26 1 Kgs 13:32 1 Kgs 13:5 1 Kgs 13:9

1 Kings 13:2²He cried out against the altar with the Lord’s message, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord has said, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:15-18 Ezek 36:1 2 Kgs 22:1-2 1 Kgs 13:32 2 Chr 34:1 2 Chr 34:4-7 Deut 32:1 Ezek 36:4 Ezek 38:4 Isa 1:2

1 Kings 13:3³That day he had also given a sign, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has declared: The altar will split open and the ashes on it will pour out.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:22 Exod 4:3-5 John 2:18 Judg 6:17 1 Sam 2:34 2 Kgs 20:8 Deut 13:1-3 Exod 4:8-9 Exod 7:10 Isa 38:22

1 Kings 13:4⁴When the king heard the prophet’s message that he had cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam took his hand from the altar and pointed it saying, “Seize him!” Then the hand that he had pointed at him stiffened up, and he could not pull it back.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 11:5 2 Chr 18:25-27 2 Chr 16:10 2 Chr 25:15-16 2 Kgs 6:18-20 Acts 13:8-11 Acts 6:12-14 Acts 9:4-5 Amos 7:10-17 Gen 19:11

1 Kings 13:5⁵Meanwhile the altar split open, and the ashes poured from the altar in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had given with the Lord ’s message.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:3 1 Kgs 22:28 1 Kgs 22:35 Acts 5:1-10 Deut 18:22 Exod 9:18-25 Jer 28:16-17 Mark 16:20 Num 16:23-35

1 Kings 13:6⁶The king responded to the prophet, “Seek the favor of the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord ’s favor and the king’s hand was restored as it was at first.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 8:24 Exod 10:17 Exod 8:8 Exod 9:28 Luke 6:27-28 Exod 8:28 Num 21:7 1 Sam 12:19 1 Sam 12:23 Acts 7:60

1 Kings 13:7⁷The king then said to the prophet, “Come home with me and have something to eat, so that I may give you a gift.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:15 1 Sam 9:7-8 1 Pet 5:2 Acts 8:18-20 Gen 18:5 Jer 40:5 Judg 13:15 Judg 19:21 Mal 1:10

1 Kings 13:8⁸But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you. I am not allowed to eat food or drink water in this place.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 24:13 Num 22:18 1 Kgs 13:16-17 2 Cor 11:9-10 2 Kgs 5:16 2 Kgs 5:26-27 Exod 5:3 Exod 5:6 Exod 7:2 Mark 6:11

1 Kings 13:9⁹For this is how I was commanded in the Lord’ s message, ‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 23:12 John 13:17 John 15:14 John 15:9-10 Rom 16:17 1 Kgs 13:1 1 Kgs 13:21-22 1 Sam 15:22 Deut 13:13-18 Num 16:26

1 Kings 13:10¹⁰So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Kings 13:11¹¹Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. When his sons came home, they told him everything the prophet had done in Bethel that day. And they told their father all the words that he had spoken to the king.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:18 1 Kgs 13:20-21 1 Kgs 13:25 1 Sam 10:11 1 Tim 3:5 2 Pet 2:16 Ezek 13:16 Ezek 13:2 Matt 7:22 Num 23:4-5

1 Kings 13:12¹²Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Kings 13:13¹³He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted itCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:27 2 Sam 19:26 Judg 10:4 Judg 5:10 Num 22:21

1 Kings 13:14¹⁴and took off after the prophet, whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:11-12 1 Kgs 19:4 2 Cor 11:27 John 4:34 John 4:6 Phil 4:12-13

1 Kings 13:15¹⁵He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Kings 13:16¹⁶But he replied, “I can’t go back with you. I am not allowed to eat food or to drink water with you in this place.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:8-9 Gen 3:1-3 Matt 16:23 Matt 4:10 Num 22:13 Num 22:19

1 Kings 13:17¹⁷For an order came to me in the Lord’ s message, ‘Eat no food. Drink no water there. And do not return by the way you came.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:35 1 Thess 4:15 1 Kgs 13:1

1 Kings 13:18¹⁸Then the old prophet said, “I too am a prophet like you. And an angel has told me in a message from the Lord, ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat food and drink water.’” But he had lied to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 4:1 Matt 7:15 2 Cor 11:13-15 2 Pet 2:1 Jer 23:32 Jer 28:15-16 Num 22:35 Rom 16:18 2 Cor 11:3 Ezek 13:22

1 Kings 13:19¹⁹So the prophet went back with him. He ate food in his house and he drank water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:9 2 Pet 2:18-19 Acts 4:19 Deut 13:1 Deut 13:3 Deut 13:5 Deut 18:20 Gen 3:6

1 Kings 13:20²⁰While they were sitting at the table, the Lord’ s message came to the old prophet who had brought him back.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 13:2 John 11:51 Matt 7:22 Num 23:16 Num 23:5 Num 24:16-24 Num 24:4

1 Kings 13:21²¹So he cried out to the prophet who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘You have rebelled against the Lord ’s instruction and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 13:13-14 1 Sam 15:22-24 Gal 1:8-9 1 Kgs 13:17 1 Sam 15:19 1 Sam 4:18 2 Sam 12:9-11 2 Sam 24:13 2 Sam 6:7 Esth 6:13

1 Kings 13:22²²You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you, “Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:30 1 Kgs 14:13 2 Chr 21:19-20 Isa 14:18-20 Jer 22:18-19

1 Kings 13:23²³So this is what happened after he had eaten food and drunk water. The old prophet saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Kings 13:24²⁴So the prophet from Judah travelled on. Then a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. There was his body lying on the road, with the donkey standing next to it, and the lion just standing there by the body.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:36 1 Cor 11:31-32 1 Pet 4:17-18 2 Kgs 2:24 Amos 5:19 Prov 22:13 Prov 26:13

1 Kings 13:25²⁵Then some men came passing by and saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing next to the body. They went and reported what they had seen in the city where the old prophet lived.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:11

1 Kings 13:26²⁶When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, he said, “It is the prophet who rebelled against the Lord. The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it tore him up and killed him, in keeping with the Lord’s message that he had spoken to him.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 9:6 1 Cor 11:30 2 Sam 12:10 2 Sam 12:14 Heb 12:28-29 Lev 10:3 Prov 11:31 Ps 119:120 1 Pet 4:17

1 Kings 13:27²⁷He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Kings 13:28²⁸He went and found the body lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; the lion had neither eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:4 1 Kgs 17:6 Acts 16:26 Dan 3:22 Dan 3:27-28 Dan 6:22-24 Heb 11:33-34 Jer 5:22-23 Job 38:11 Ps 148:7-8

1 Kings 13:29²⁹The old prophet picked up the prophet’s body, put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

1 Kings 13:30³⁰He put the body into his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 22:18 1 Kgs 14:13 Acts 8:2

1 Kings 13:31³¹After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:17-18 Eccl 8:10 Luke 16:22-23 Num 23:10 Ps 26:9

1 Kings 13:32³²because the message that he announced as the Lord ’s message against the altar in Bethel and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north will certainly be fulfilled.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 16:24 1 Kgs 13:2 1 Kgs 12:31 Lev 26:30 2 Kgs 23:16-19 1 Kgs 12:29 2 Chr 25:13 Ezra 4:10 John 4:4-5

1 Kings 13:33³³After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 11:15 2 Chr 13:9 1 Kgs 12:31-33 2 Tim 3:13 Amos 6:11 Exod 28:41 Jer 18:4 Judg 17:12 Num 1:51 Num 17:12-13