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Themes in 1 Kings 13
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Themes in 1 Kings 13

1 Kings 13:1

And behold, there came a man of God out of Judah with the word of God, to Bethel, as Jeroboam stood by the altar to offer,

1 Kings 13:2

and cried against the altar at the commandment of the LORD and said, "Altar, altar, thus sayeth the LORD: 'Behold, a child shall be born of the house of David, Josiah by name, which upon thee shall offer the priests of the hill altars that sacrifice upon thee, and shall burn men's bones upon thee.'"

1 Kings 13:3

And he gave them the same time a sign, saying, "This is the sign, of that the LORD hath promised: Behold, the altar shall rent and the ashes that are in it shall fall out."

1 Kings 13:4

And when the king heard the saying of the man of God which he cried against the altar in Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar saying, "Hold him." And his hand, which he put forth toward him, dried up that he could not pull it in again to him;

1 Kings 13:5

and the altar clave and the ashes ran out of the altar according to the token which the man of God had given at the commandment of the LORD.

1 Kings 13:6

And the king answered and said unto the man of God, "Oh pray unto the LORD thy God and make intercession for me, that my hand may be restored me again." And the man of God besought the LORD, and his hand came to him again as well as before.

1 Kings 13:7

Then said the king unto the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward."

1 Kings 13:8

But the man of God answered the king, "If thou wouldest give me half thine house, I would not go with thee - neither would I eat meat or drink water in this place.

1 Kings 13:9

For so was it charged me, through the word of God and said to me, 'Eat no bread nor drink water nor turn again by the same way thou wentest."

1 Kings 13:10

And so he went another way and returned not by the way he came to Bethel.

1 Kings 13:11

And there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel, and the words which he spake unto the king they told their father also.

1 Kings 13:12

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.

1 Kings 13:13

Then said he to his sons, "Saddle mine ass." And they saddled him an ass.

1 Kings 13:14

And he gat him up thereon and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an Oak and said unto him, "Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?" And he said, "Yea."

1 Kings 13:15

Then he said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread."

1 Kings 13:16

And the other said again, "I may not return with thee, to go with thee, neither may I eat bread or drink water with thee in this place.

1 Kings 13:17

For it was said to me by the commandment of the LORD, 'Eat no bread nor drink water in this place, nor turn again by the way thou wentest.'"

1 Kings 13:18

And the old prophet said unto him, "I am a prophet as well as thou, and an Angel spake unto me with the word of the LORD saying, 'Bring him again with thee to thine house, and let him eat bread and drink water.' Bvt he lied unto him.

1 Kings 13:19

And so the other went again with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.

1 Kings 13:20

And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him again.

1 Kings 13:21

And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, "Thus sayeth the LORD: 'Because thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

1 Kings 13:22

but camest back again and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place in which he bade that thou shouldest eat no bread nor drink water: therefore thy carcass shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.'"

1 Kings 13:23

And when he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled an ass for the prophet which he had brought again.

1 Kings 13:24

And as he journeyed, a lion met him by the way and slew him, and his carcass lay along in the way and the ass stood thereby, and the lion stood by the corpse also.

1 Kings 13:25

And men that passed by, saw the carcass cast along in the way and the lion standing thereby, and went and told it in the town where the old prophet dwelt.

1 Kings 13:26

And when the prophet that brought him back again from the way, heard thereof, he said, "It is the man of God which disobeyed the mouth of the LORD. And therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion which hath rent him and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he said to him."

1 Kings 13:27

And he said to his sons, "Saddle me an ass." So they did.

1 Kings 13:28

And he went and found the body cast along in the way, and the ass and the lion standing thereby. And the lion had not eaten the carcass nor hurt the ass.

1 Kings 13:29

And he took up the body of the man of God and put it upon the ass and brought it again, and came to the city of the old prophet to lament him, and to bury him.

1 Kings 13:30

And he laid his body in his own grave and lamented over him, "Oh my brother."

1 Kings 13:31

And when he had buried him, he spake to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, see that ye bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried, and lay my bones by his.

1 Kings 13:32

For the saying which he cried at the bidding of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of hill altars which are in the cities of Samaria, shall come to pass."

1 Kings 13:33

Howbeit, for all that, Jeroboam turned not from his wicked way: but turned away and made of the lowest of the people priests of the hill altars. Whosoever would, he filled their hands, and they became priests of the hill altars.

1 Kings 13:34

And this doing was sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to destroy it and to put it away from off the face of the earth.
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