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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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
, saying, Bring
him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water.
But
he lied unto him.
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the L
ORD
, and hast not kept the
commandment which the L
ORD
thy God commanded thee,
22
But camest back, and hast eaten bread
and drunk water in the place, of the which
the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
: therefore the L
ORD
hath delivered him
unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
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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