列王纪上 13:11

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

神人受騙違背　神的命令有一個老先知住在伯特利，他的兒子們來告訴他，那一天神人在伯特利所行的一切事。他們也把他對王所說的話，都告訴了他們的父親。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
有 一 个 老 先 知 住 在 伯 特 利 ， 他 儿 子 们 来 ， 将 　 神 人 当 日 在 伯 特 利 所 行 的 一 切 事 和 向 王 所 说 的 话 都 告 诉 了 父 亲 。

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Now an old prophet was living in Bethel. His sons came and told him what the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to King Jeroboam. ¹² The father asked, "Which road did he use when he left?" So his sons showed him the road the man of God from Judah had taken. ¹³ Then the prophet told his sons to put a saddle on his donkey. So they saddled the donkey, and he left. ¹⁴ He went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. The prophet asked, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" The man answered, "Yes, I am." ¹⁵ The prophet said, "Please come home and eat with me." ¹⁶ "I can't go home with you," the man of God answered. "I can't eat or drink with you in this place. ¹⁷ The Lord said to me, ‘Don't eat or drink anything there or return on the same road by which you came.'" ¹⁸ Then the old prophet said, "But I also am a prophet like you." Then he told a lie. He said, "An angel from the Lord came to me and told me to bring you to my home. He said you should eat and drink with me." ¹⁹ So the man of God went to the old prophet's house, and he ate and drank with him there. ²⁰ While they were sitting at the table, the Lord spoke his word to the old prophet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an old prophet: 1 Kings 13:20, 1 Kings 13:21, Numbers 23:4, Numbers 23:5, Numbers 24:2, 1 Samuel 10:11, 2 Kings 23:18, Ezekiel 13:2, Ezekiel 13:16, Matthew 7:22, 2 Peter 2:16

sons: Heb. son

came: 1 Timothy 3:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:22 - the man

Cross-References

Genesis 13:9
We should separate. The whole land is there in front of you. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left."

Genesis 13:14
After Lot left, the Lord said to Abram, "Look all around you—to the north and south and east and west.

Genesis 19:17
After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run to the mountains, or you will be destroyed."

Psalms 16:3
As for the godly people in the world, they are the wonderful ones I enjoy.

Psalms 119:63
I am a friend to everyone who fears you, to anyone who obeys your orders.

Proverbs 27:10
Don't forget your friend or your parent's friend. Don't always go to your family for help when trouble comes. A neighbor close by is better than a family far away.

Hebrews 10:25
You should not stay away from the church meetings, as some are doing, but you should meet together and encourage each other. Do this even more as you see the day coming.

1 Peter 2:17
Show respect for all people: Love the brothers and sisters of God's family, respect God, honor the king.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel,.... The Targum is, a false prophet, so Josephus b; it is hard to say what he was, a good man or a bad man; if a good man, he was guilty of many things which are not in his favour, as dwelling in such an idolatrous place suffering his sons to attend idolatrous worship, and telling the man of God a premeditated lie; and yet there are several things which seem contrary to his being a bad man, and of an ill character, since he is called an old prophet, did not attend idolatrous worship, showed great respect to the man of God, had the word of God sent unto him concerning him, believed that what he had prophesied should come to pass, buried the man of God in his own grave, and desired his sons to bury him with him. In some copies his name is said to be Micah, as Kimchi observes, and other Jewish writers c say the same; though some take him to be Amaziah the priest of Bethel, and others Gersom the son of Moses d, but without any foundation; though he now dwelt at Bethel, he was originally of Samaria, 2 Kings 23:18,

and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; that the altar was rent, and the ashes poured out, as he had said, and that Jeroboam's hand withered, and was restored upon his prayer to God:

the words which he had spoken unto the king; that one should be born of the family of David, Josiah by name, that should offer the idolatrous priests, and burn the bones of men upon that altar, and that that should be rent, and its ashes poured forth, which was done:

them they told also their father; gave him a particular account of his actions and words.

b Antiqu. l. 8. c. 9. sect. 1. c T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 104. 1. d Shalshalet Hakabala, ut supra. (fol. 11. 1.) Shirhalbirim Rabba, fol. 10. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The truly pious Israelites quitted their homes when Jeroboam made his religious changes, and, proceeding to Jerusalem, strengthened the kingdom of Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 10:16-17. This “old prophet” therefore, who, without being infirm in any way, had remained under Jeroboam, and was even content to dwell at Bethel - the chief seat of the new worship - was devoid of any deep and earnest religious feeling.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 13:11. An old prophet — Probably once a prophet of the Lord, who had fallen from his steadfastness, and yet not so deeply as to lose the knowledge of the true God, and join with Jeroboam in his idolatries. We find he was not at the king's sacrifice, though his sons were there; and perhaps even they were there, not as idolaters, but as spectators of what was done.