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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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 And the king said unto the man of God, Come
home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will
give thee a reward.
08 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:
09 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 Bethel.
11 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.
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.
13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass.
So they 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, I am.
15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and
eat bread.
16 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:
17 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.
18 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.
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19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in
his house, and drank water.
20 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:
21 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,
22 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.
23 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.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me
the ass. And they saddled him.
28 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.
29 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.
30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and
they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
31 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:
32 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.
33 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.
34 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.
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