1 Kings 13:19

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and the man of God went back with him, ate food in his house, and drank water.

Hebrew Names Version
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

King James Version
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

English Standard Version
So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.

New Century Version
So the man of God went to the old prophet's house, and he ate and drank with him there.

New English Translation
So the prophet went back with him and ate and drank in his house.

Amplified Bible
So the man of God went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.

New American Standard Bible
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So he went againe with him, and did eate bread in his house, and dranke water.

Legacy Standard Bible
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.

Contemporary English Version
so he went home with him and ate and drank.

Complete Jewish Bible
So he went back with him and did eat food and drink water in his house.

Darby Translation
Then he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the man of God went to the old prophet's house and ate and drank with him.

George Lamsa Translation
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house and drank water.

Good News Translation
So the prophet from Judah went home with the old prophet and had a meal with him.

Lexham English Bible
So he returned with him and ate food in his house and drank water.

Literal Translation
And he turned back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and broughte him agayne, so that he ate bred, and dranke water in his house.

American Standard Version
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

Bible in Basic English
So he went back with him, and had a meal in his house and a drink of water.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so he went againe with him, and did eate bread in his house, and drancke water.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

King James Version (1611)
So he went backe with him, and did eate bread in his house, and dranke water.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he brought him back, and he ate bread and drank water in his house.

English Revised Version
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

Berean Standard Bible
but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and brouyte him ayen with hym. Therfor he ete breed in his hows, and drank watir.

Young's Literal Translation
And he turneth back with him, and eateth bread in his house, and drinketh water.

Update Bible Version
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

Webster's Bible Translation
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

World English Bible
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

New King James Version
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

New Living Translation
So they went back together, and the man of God ate and drank at the prophet's home.

New Life Bible
So he returned with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

New Revised Standard
Then the man of God went back with him, and ate food and drank water in his house.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And brought him back with him: so he ate bread, and drank water in his house.

Revised Standard Version
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ There was an old prophet who lived in Bethel. His sons came and told him the story of what the holy man had done that day in Bethel, told him everything that had happened and what the holy man had said to the king. ¹² Their father said, "Which way did he go?" His sons pointed out the road that the holy man from Judah had taken. ¹³He told his sons, "Saddle my donkey." When they had saddled it, he got on and rode after the holy man. He found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, "Are you the holy man who came from Judah?" "Yes, I am," he said. ¹⁵ "Well, come home with me and have a meal." ¹⁶"Sorry, I can't do that," the holy man said. "I can neither go back with you nor eat with you in this country. I'm under strict orders from God : ‘Don't eat a crumb; don't drink a drop; and don't come back the way you came.'" ¹⁸But he said, "I am also a prophet, just like you. And an angel came to me with a message from God : ‘Bring him home with you, and give him a good meal!'" But the man was lying. So the holy man went home with him and they had a meal together. ²⁰There they were, sitting at the table together, when the word of God came to the prophet who had brought him back. He confronted the holy man who had come from Judah: " God 's word to you: You disobeyed God 's command; you didn't keep the strict orders your God gave you; you came back and sat down to a good meal in the very place God told you, ‘Don't eat a crumb; don't drink a drop.' For that you're going to die far from home and not be buried in your ancestral tomb."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 13:9, Genesis 3:6, Deuteronomy 13:1, Deuteronomy 13:3, Deuteronomy 13:5, Deuteronomy 18:20, Acts 4:19, 2 Peter 2:18, 2 Peter 2:19

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 13:22 - eaten

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he went back with him,.... In which he sinned; for as he had most certainly the command of God not to eat and drink in that place, he ought to have had the countermand from the Lord, and not trusted to another person. There are some things indeed which may be said in his favour, and be an apology for him, as that this man was an ancient prophet of the Lord, as he appeared to him; and that though he was forbid to eat and drink with idolaters, yet he thought he might with a prophet of the Lord, and especially as he affirmed he had the direction of an angel of the Lord for it; nor could he conceive that the prophet had any interest to serve by it, but rather it might be chargeable and burdensome to him; and he might think the Lord, out of compassion on him, had countermanded his former orders, and the circumstances he was in might the more incline him to listen to these plausible pretences; but, after all, he ought to have taken no directions but from the Lord himself; in this he failed:

and did eat bread in his house, and drink water; contrary to the express command of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 13:19. So he went back with him — He permitted himself to be imposed on; he might have thought, as he had accomplished every purpose for which God sent him, and had actually begun to return by another way, God, who had given him the charge, had authority to say, "As thy purpose was to obey every injunction, even to the letter, I now permit thee to go with this old prophet, and take some refreshment." Now God might as well have dispensed with this part of the injunction, as he did in the case of Abraham: Take thy son Isaac, thy only son, whom thou lovest-and offer him for a burnt-offering; but, when he saw his perfect readiness, he dispensed with the actual offering, and accepted a ram in his stead. Thus much may be said in vindication of the man of God: but if this be so, why should he be punished with death, for doing what he had reason and precedent to believe might be the will of God? I answer: He should not have taken a step back, till he had remission of the clause from the same authority which gave him the general message. He should have had it from the word of the Lord to himself, in both cases, as Abraham had; and not taken an apparent contradiction of what was before delivered unto him, from the mouth of a stranger, who only professed to have it from an angel, who pretended to speak unto him by the word of the Lord. In this, and in this alone, lay the sinfulness of the act of the man of God, who came out of Judah.