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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.

So he went another way. He did not return by the way he came to Bethel.

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.

So he returned with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

You have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place the Lord said to you, "Eat no bread and drink no water." So now your body will not come to the grave of your fathers.'"

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."

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.

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.

Jeroboam's wife did so. She got ready and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah's house. Now Ahijah could not see. His eyes were weak because he was old.

So I am bringing trouble upon the family of Jeroboam. I will kill every male from Jeroboam, both owned and free in Israel. I will clean away the family of Jeroboam, as one cleans away animal waste until it is all gone.

So King Rehoboam made body coverings of brass in their place. He put them in the care of the captain of the soldiers who watched the door of the king's house.

"Let there be an agreement of peace between me and you, as between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your agreement of peace with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will leave me."

So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and ruled in his place.

So I will destroy Baasha and his house. I will make your house like the family of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

So Zimri destroyed the whole family of Baasha, as was spoken against Baasha by the word of the Lord through Jehu the man who spoke for God.

The people who were gathered heard it said, "Zimri has made plans and has killed the king." So all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, the king of Israel that day among the tents.

Ahab made an object of wood to look like the false goddess Asherah. So Ahab did more to make the Lord God of Israel angry than all the kings of Israel before him.

So he went and did what he was told by the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the river Cherith, east of the Jordan.

So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he came to the city gate, he saw a woman there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, "I ask of you, get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink."