1 Kings 12:33-13:10
1599 Geneva Bible
33 And he offered upon the altar, which he had made in Bethel, the fifteenth day of the eighth month, (even in the month which he had forged of his own heart) and made a solemn feast unto the children of Israel, and he went up to the altar, to burn incense.
13 1 Jeroboam is reprehended of the Prophet. 4 His hand drieth up. 13 The Prophet is seduced, 24 and is killed of a lion. 33 The obstinacy of Jeroboam.
1 And behold, there came [a]a man of God out of Judah (by the commandment of the Lord) unto [b]Bethel, 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, (A)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 [c]sign, that the Lord hath spoken, Behold, the altar shall rent, and the ashes that are upon it, shall [d]fall out.
4 And when the king had heard the saying of the man of God, which he had cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand for the altar, saying, [e]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 [f]commandment of the Lord.
6 Then the king answered and said unto the man of God, [g]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 [h]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 with thee, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place.
9 For so [i]was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, [j]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.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 13:1 That is, a Prophet.
- 1 Kings 13:1 Not that that was called Luz in Benjamin, but another of that name.
- 1 Kings 13:3 By this sign ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me.
- 1 Kings 13:3 Or, be poured out.
- 1 Kings 13:4 The wicked rage against the Prophets of God, when they declare them God’s judgments.
- 1 Kings 13:5 Hebrew, mouth.
- 1 Kings 13:6 Though the wicked humble themselves for a time when they feel God’s judgment, yet after they return to their old malice, and declare that they are but vile hypocrites.
- 1 Kings 13:7 Or, take sustenance.
- 1 Kings 13:9 Or, he charged me: to wit, an Angel.
- 1 Kings 13:9 Seeing he had the express word of God, he ought not to have declined therefrom neither for the persuasion of man nor Angel.
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