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But the man of God said to the king, "I will not go home with you, even if you give me half of your kingdom! I will not eat or drink anything in this place.

There was an old prophet living in Bethel. His sons came and told him what the man of God did in Bethel and what he said to King Jeroboam.

The old prophet said, "Which way did he go when he left?" So the sons showed their father which road the man of God from Judah had taken.

The old prophet went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked him, "Are you the man of God who just came from Judah?" The man of God answered, "Yes, I am."

But the man of God said, "I cannot go home with you. I cannot eat or drink anything in this place.

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

and the old prophet spoke to the man of God from Judah. He said, "The Lord said that you did not obey him! You did not do what he commanded.

The man of God finished eating and drinking. Then the old prophet saddled the man's donkey for him and the man left.

On the way home, a lion attacked and killed the man of God. His body was lying on the road while the lion stood next to it. The donkey stood nearby.

The old prophet heard the story and said, "This is the man of God who did not obey the Lord 's command, so the Lord sent a lion to attack him. The lion has killed him, just as the Lord said would happen."

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

All Israel will cry for him. They will bury him, but he is the only one from Jeroboam's family who will be buried. This is because he is the only one in Jeroboam's family who pleased the Lord , the God of Israel.

He did all the same sins that his father before him had done. Abijah was not faithful to the Lord his God. In this way he was not like his grandfather, David.

Asa and his father had given some special gifts to God. Asa put these gifts of gold, silver, and other things in the Lord 's Temple.

This happened because King Jeroboam had committed many sins and had caused the Israelites to sin. This made the Lord , the God of Israel, very angry.

He committed all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had committed when he caused the Israelites to sin. They worshiped worthless idols, and this made the Lord , the God of Israel, very angry.

He also set up a sacred pole. Ahab did more to make the Lord , the God of Israel, angry than all the other kings who were before him.

Elijah was a prophet from the town of Tishbe in Gilead. He said to King Ahab, "I serve the Lord , the God of Israel. By his power, I promise that no dew or rain will fall for the next few years. The rain will fall only when I command it to fall."

The woman answered, "I promise you, before the Lord your God, that I have nothing but a handful of flour in a jar and a little bit of olive oil in a jug. I came here to gather a few pieces of wood for a fire to 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. This will continue until the day the Lord sends rain to the land.'"