1 Kings 13:21

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹¹Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king. ¹²"Which way did he go?" their father asked. And his sons had seen the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah. ¹³So the prophet said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it ¹⁴and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" "I am," he replied. ¹⁵Then the prophet said to the man of God, "Come home with me and eat some bread." ¹⁶But the man replied, "I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place. ¹⁷For I have been told by the word of the LORD: 'You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.'" ¹⁸Then the prophet replied, "I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.'" The old prophet was lying to him, ¹⁹but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water. ²⁰While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

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Thus saith: 1 Kings 13:17, Genesis 3:7, Esther 6:13, Jeremiah 2:19, Galatians 1:8, Galatians 1:9

thou hast disobeyed: Leviticus 10:3, Numbers 20:12, Numbers 20:24, 1 Samuel 4:18, 1 Samuel 13:13, 1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 15:19, 1 Samuel 15:22-24, 2 Samuel 6:7, 2 Samuel 12:9-11, 2 Samuel 24:13, Revelation 3:19

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:11 - smote Deuteronomy 4:22 - General Deuteronomy 32:51 - because ye 1 Kings 13:9 - For 1 Kings 13:11 - an old prophet 1 Kings 20:36 - General 1 Chronicles 21:10 - that I may 2 Chronicles 22:9 - in Samaria Lamentations 1:18 - commandment Ezekiel 2:8 - Be 1 Corinthians 11:30 - many

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah,.... His mind being greatly affected with the word brought to him, partly on his own account, who, by a lie his conscience must accuse him of, had been the means of seducing the man of God, and partly on his account, who was threatened with death for complying with him:

saying, thus saith the Lord; being obliged to deliver, in the name of the Lord, what was said unto him:

forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord; the order that came out of his mouth, as follows:

and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee; not to eat nor drink in Bethel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord - It was his duty not to have suffered himself to be persuaded. He should have felt that his obedience was being tried, and should have required, ere he considered himself released, “the same, or as strong, evidence,” as that on which he had received the obligation. Disobedience to certain positive commands of God, was one which it was at this time very important to punish signally, since it was exactly the sin of Jeroboam and his adherents.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 13:21. And he — That is, according to the above interpretation, the voice of God from heaven addressing the man of God, the old prophet having nothing to do in this business.