I Kings Chapter 13

I Kings Chapter 13
1 And behold, there came a man of God
out of Judah (by the commandment of the
Lord) unto Beth-el, and Jeroboam stood
by the altar to offer incense. 2 And he
cried against the altar by the
commandment 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 sacrifice the priests of the high
places that burn incense upon thee, and
they shall burn men's bones upon thee.
3 And he gave a sign the same time,
saying, This is the sign, that the Lord
hath spoken, Behold, the altar shall rent,
and the ashes that are upon it, shall fall
out.
4 And when the king had heard the
saying of the man of God, which he had
cried against the altar in Beth-el,
Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the
altar, saying, Lay hold on him: but his
hand which he put forth against him,
dried up, and he could not pull it in
again to him.
5 The altar also clave asunder, and the
ashes fell out from the altar, according to
the sign, which the man of God had
given by the commandment of the Lord.
6 Then the king answered, and said unto
the man of God, I beseech thee, pray
unto the Lord thy God, and make
intercession for me, that mine hand may
be restored unto me. And the man of God
besought the Lord, and the king's hand
was restored, and became as it was
afore.
7 Then the king said unto the man of
God, Come home with me, that thou
mayest dine, and I will give thee a
reward.
8 But the man of God said unto the king,
If thou wouldest give me half thine
house, I would not go in with thee,
neither would I eat bread nor drink
water in this place.
9 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.
10 So he went another way and returned
not by the way that he came to Beth-el.
11 And an old prophet dwelt in Beth-el,
and his sons came and told him all the
works, that the man of God had done that
day in Beth-el, and the words which he
had spoken unto the king, told they their
father.
12 And their father said unto them, What
way went he? And his sons showed him
what way the man of God went, which
came from Judah.
13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me
the ass. Who saddled him the ass, and he
rode thereon,
14 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,
Yea.
15 Then he said unto him, Come home
with me, and eat bread.
16 But he answered, I may not return
with thee, nor go in with thee, neither
will I eat bread nor drink water with
thee in this place.
17 For it was charged me by the word of
the Lord, saying, Thou shalt eat no
bread, nor drink water there, nor turn
again to go by the way that thou wentest.
18 And 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 again with thee into thine
house, that he may eat bread and drink
water: but he lied unto him. 19 So he
went again with him, and did eat bread
in his house, and drank water.
20 And as they sat at the table, the word
of the Lord came unto the prophet, that
brought him again.
21 And he cried unto the man of God that
came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the
Lord, Because thou hast disobeyed the
mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the
commandment which the Lord thy God
commanded thee, 22 But camest back
again, and hast eaten bread and drunk
water in the place (whereof he did say
unto thee, Thou shalt eat no bread nor
drink any water) thy carcass shall not
come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
23 And when he had eaten bread and
drunk, he saddled him the ass, to wit, to
the prophet whom he had brought again.
24 And when he was gone, a lion met
him by the way, and slew him, and his
body was cast in the way, and the ass
stood thereby: the lion stood by the
corpse also.
25 And behold, men that passed by, saw
the carcass cast in the way, and the lion
standing by the corpse: and they came
and told it in the town where the old
prophet dwelt.
26 And when the prophet, that brought
him back again from the way, heard
thereof, he said, It is the man of God,
who hath been disobedient unto the
commandment of the Lord: 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 spake unto him.
27 And he spake to his sons, saying,
Saddle me the ass. And they saddled
him.
28 And he went and found his body cast
in the way, and the ass and the lion stood
by the corpse: and the lion had not eaten
the body, nor torn the ass. 29 And the
prophet took up the body of the man of
God, and laid it upon the ass, and
brought it again, and the old prophet
came to the city, to lament and bury him.
30 And he laid his body in his own
grave, and they lamented over him,
saying, Alas, my brother.
31 And when he had buried him, he
spake to his sons, saying, When I am
dead, bury ye me also in the sepulchre,
wherein the man of God is buried: lay
my bones beside his bones.
32 For that thing which he cried by the
word of the Lord against the altar that is
in Beth-el, and against all the houses of
the high places, which are in the cities of
Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
33 Howbeit after this, Jeroboam
converted not from his wicked way, but
turned again, and made of the lowest of
the people priests of the high places.
Who would, might consecrate himself,
and be of the priests of the high places.
34 And this thing turned to sin unto the
house of Jeroboam, even to root it out,
and destroy it from the face of the earth.