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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.

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.

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."

"I can't go home with you," the man of God answered. "I can't eat or drink with you in this place.

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

The old prophet cried out to the man of God from Judah, "The Lord said you did not obey him! He said you did not do what the Lord your God commanded you.

After the man of God finished eating and drinking, the prophet put a saddle on his donkey for him, and the man left.

The old prophet who had brought back the man of God heard what had happened. "It is the man of God who did not obey the Lord 's command," he said. "So the Lord sent a lion to kill him, just as he said he would."

The prophet buried the body in his own family grave, and they were sad for the man of God and said, "Oh, my brother."

Go back and tell Jeroboam that this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘Jeroboam, I chose you from among all the people and made you the leader of my people Israel.

and all Israel will be sad for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jeroboam's family who will be buried, because he is the only one in the king's family who pleased the Lord , the God of Israel.

There were even male prostitutes in the land. They acted like the people who had lived in the land before the Israelites. They had done many evil things, and God had taken the land away from them.

He did all the same sins his father before him had done. Abijam was not faithful to the Lord his God as David, his great-grandfather, had been.

King Jeroboam had sinned very much and had led the people of Israel to sin, so he made the Lord , the God of Israel, very angry.

Baasha and his son Elah sinned and led the people of Israel to sin, and they made the Lord , the God of Israel, angry because of their worthless idols.

Jeroboam son of Nebat had led the people of Israel to sin, and Omri sinned in the same way as Jeroboam. The Israelites made the Lord , the God of Israel, very angry because they worshiped worthless idols.

Ahab also made an idol for worshiping Asherah. He did more things to make the Lord , the God of Israel, angry than all the other kings before him.

Now Elijah the Tishbite was a prophet from the settlers in Gilead. "I serve the Lord , the God of Israel," Elijah said to Ahab. "As surely as the Lord lives, no rain or dew will fall during the next few years unless I command it."

The woman answered, "As surely as the Lord your God lives, I have no bread. I have only a handful of flour in a jar and only a little olive oil in a jug. I came here to gather some wood so I could go home and cook our last meal. My son and I will eat it and then die from hunger."

The Lord , the God of Israel, says, ‘That jar of flour will never be empty, and the jug will always have oil in it, until the day the Lord sends rain to the land.'"