1 Kungaboken 13:6

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Då tog konungen till orda och sade till gudsmannen: »Bönfall inför HERREN, din Gud, och bed för mig att jag må kunna draga min hand tillbaka till mig igen.» Och gudsmannen bönföll inför HERREN; och konungen kunde då draga sin hand tillbaka till sig igen, och den var likadan som förut.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

now: Exodus 8:8, Exodus 8:28, Exodus 9:28, Exodus 10:17, Exodus 12:32, Numbers 21:7, 1 Samuel 12:19, Jeremiah 37:3, Jeremiah 42:2-4, Acts 8:24, James 5:16, Revelation 3:9

besought: Exodus 8:12, Exodus 8:13, Numbers 12:13, 1 Samuel 12:23, Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27, Luke 6:28, Luke 23:34, Acts 7:60, Romans 12:14, Romans 12:21, James 5:16-18

Lord: Heb. face of the Lord

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:7 - pray Numbers 12:11 - I beseech thee Deuteronomy 33:1 - the man Judges 11:8 - the elders 2 Kings 1:13 - besought Zechariah 7:2 - pray before the Lord Mark 3:5 - Stretch Luke 6:10 - Stretch

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king answered and said unto the man of God,.... In another tone than when he bid the people lay hold on him; not in a haughty, but humble manner; not as threatening, but supplicating:

entreat now the face of the Lord thy God; he does not say "my God", for he had apostatized from him, and served other gods, but "thy" God, whose prophet he was, and who had an interest in him, as clearly appeared by what he had said and done by him;

and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again; not that the anger of God might be turned away from him, and he enjoy the divine favour, and have an application of pardoning grace made to him, only to have this outward mercy, this temporal favour restored to him, the use of his hand:

and the man of God besought the Lord; not rendering evil for evil; but being of a forgiving spirit, though the king had stretched out his hand against him, he lifted up his hands to heaven for him:

and the king's hand was restored again, and became as it was before; which was another instance of divine power, and a further proof of the prophet's divine mission; from whence it might be concluded, that what he had prophesied of would be fulfilled, and was an instance also of divine goodness to the king, which should have led him to repentance, but did not.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 13:6. Entreat - the face of the Lord thy God — The face of God is his favour, as we see in many parts of the sacred writings. He says, thy God; for Jeroboam knew that he was not his God, for he was now in the very act of acknowledging other gods, and had no portion in the God of Jacob.

And the king's hand was restored — Both miracles were wrought to show the truth of the Jewish religion, and to convince this bold innovator of his wickedness, and to reclaim him from the folly and ruinous tendency of his idolatry.