1 Kings 13:11-22

Bible Text

[11] Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of 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 to the king, them also they told to their father. [12] Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah. [13] He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey; and he rode thereon. [14] He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? He said, I am. [15] Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread. [16] He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place: [17] for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came. [18] He said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied to him. [19] So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water. [20] It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back; [21] and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you, [22] but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.

Bethel, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, was a key worship site that Jeroboam had made a center of rival, idolatrous worship in the northern kingdom. Samaria here denotes the northern kingdom’s region (though its capital was founded later), from which the old prophet came to deceive the man of God.

Places in this passage

1 Kings 13:11-22 mentions Bethel and Samaria.

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