1 Kings 13
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And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

Lay hold

2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; …

2 Chronicles 18:25 Then the king of Israel said, Take you Micaiah, and carry him back …

2 Chronicles 25:15,16 Why the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent …

Psalm 105:15 Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

Jeremiah 20:2-4 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks …

Jeremiah 26:8-11,20-23 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all …

Jeremiah 38:4-6 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech you, let this …

Amos 7:10-17 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying…

Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch …

Matthew 26:57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the …

Mark 14:44-46 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever …

John 13:20 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that receives whomsoever I send receives …

Acts 6:12-14 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, …

his hand

Genesis 19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, …

2 Kings 6:18-20 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, …

Jeremiah 20:4-6 For thus said the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, …

Luke 3:19,20 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother …

Luke 6:10 And looking round about on them all, he said to the man, Stretch …

John 18:6 As soon then as he had said to them, I am he, they went backward, …

Acts 9:4,5 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, …

Acts 13:8-11 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood …

Revelation 11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth, …

The altar also was rent, 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.
And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

now

Exodus 8:8,28 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, …

Exodus 9:28 Entreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty …

Exodus 10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin only this once, and entreat …

Exodus 12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; …

Numbers 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for …

1 Samuel 12:19 And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the …

Jeremiah 37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah …

Jeremiah 42:2-4 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech you, our supplication …

Acts 8:24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray you to the LORD for me, that …

James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that …

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …

besought

Exodus 8:12,13 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried to the …

Numbers 12:13 And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech you.

1 Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD …

Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do …

Luke 6:27,28 But I say to you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which …

Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they …

Acts 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this …

Romans 12:14,21 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not…

James 5:16-18 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that …

Lord [heb] face of the Lord

And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.
Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:

the word of the Lord
A great clamour,' says Dr. Kennicott, has been raised against this part of history, on account of God's denouncing sentence on the {true} prophet by the mouth of the {false} prophet; but if we examine with attention the original words here, they will be found to signify either {he who brought him back} or {whom he had brought back}; for the very same words, ahser heshivo, occur again, ver.

1 Kings 13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, …

Genesis 22:11 And the angel of the LORD called to him out of heaven, and said, …

Numbers 23:5,16 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, …

Numbers 24:4,16-24 He has said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of …

Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied …

John 11:51 And this spoke he not of himself: but being high priest that year, …

1 Corinthians 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, …

And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.

the lion had All here was supernatural. The lion, though he had killed the man, yet, contrary to his nature, did not devour him, nor tear the ass, nor meddle with the travellers that passed by; while the ass stood quietly by, not fearing the lion, not betaking himself to flight: both stood as guardians of the fallen prophet, till this extraordinary intelligence was carried into the city which rendered the miracle the more illustrious and plainly shewed that this event did not happen by chance. This concatenation of miracles marked the death of the man of God as a Divine rebuke for his disobedience in eating bread at idolatrous Beth-el; and here we see, as in various other cases, that `often judgment begins at the house of God.' The true prophet, for suffering himself to be seduced by the old prophet, and for receiving that as a revelation from God which was opposed to the revelation which himself had received, and which was confirmed by so many miracles, is slain by a lion, and his body deprived of the burial of his fathers; while the wicked king and the fallen prophet are both permitted to live.

1 Kings 17:4,6 And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded …

Leviticus 10:2,5 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they …

Job 38:11 And said, Till now shall you come, but no further: and here shall …

Psalm 148:7,8 Praise the LORD from the earth, you dragons, and all deeps…

Jeremiah 5:22,23 Fear you not me? said the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence…

Daniel 3:22,27,28 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace …

Daniel 6:22-24 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, that they …

Acts 16:26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations …

Hebrews 11:33,34 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained …

torn [heb] broken

And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
For the saying 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, shall surely come to pass.
After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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