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The king said to the man of God, "I beg you, ask for the favor of the Lord your God. Pray for me, that my hand may be made well again." So the man of God asked for the Lord's favor. And the king's hand was made well again. It became as it was before.

For the word of the Lord said to me, ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.'"

Now an old man who spoke for God was living in Bethel. His sons came and told him all the things which the man of God had done that day in Bethel. And they told their father the words which the man had spoken to the king.

Then he said to his sons, "Get the donkey ready for me." So they got the donkey ready for him, and he went away on it.

For I was told by the word of the Lord, ‘Do not eat bread or drink water there. Do not return by the way you came.'"

And he said to him, "I am a man who speaks for God like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.

As they were sitting down at the table, the word of the Lord came to the man who spoke for God who had brought him back.

And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he got the donkey ready for the man of God whom he had brought back.

Then men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road, and the lion standing beside the body. So they came and told about it in the city where the old man who spoke for God lived.

When the man who spoke for God who had brought him back from the way heard about it, he said, "It is the man of God. He did not obey the word of the Lord. So the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him. It was done as had been spoken to him by the word of the Lord."

Then he said to his sons, "Get the donkey ready for me." And they got it ready.

So the man who spoke for God picked up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey, and returned with it to the city. He had sorrow for him and buried him.

He laid his body in his own grave, and they had sorrow for him, saying, "O, my brother!"

For what he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places in the cities of Samaria will happen for sure."

And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Get ready and dress yourself so no one will know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the man who speaks for God is there. He is the one who said that I would be king over these people.

The Lord had said to Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. This is what you should say to her. When she comes she will pretend to be another woman."

When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming to the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another woman? For I have been given news that will be hard for you.

But you have done more sinful things than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and objects to look like gods to make Me angry. You have put Me behind your back.

The dogs will eat anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city. And the birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the field. For the Lord has said it." ‘

All Israel will have sorrow for him and bury him. For he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave. Because in him there is found something good to the Lord God of Israel, in the family of Jeroboam.