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For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
Daily Meditation
9 for so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. 1 Kings 13:1-34
Today’s Reading
1 kings 13
A man of God out of Judah
1 And, behold,
there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth-el: and
Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 2 And he cried against the altar
in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold,
a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee
shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and
men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee. 3 And he gave a sign the same day,
saying, This is the sign which the Lord hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be
rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out. 4 And it came to
pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried
against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar,
saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried
up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. 5 The altar also was rent,
and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of
God had given by the word of the Lord. 6 And the king answered and said unto
the man of God, Intreat now the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that
my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the Lord, and the
king’s hand was restored him again, and became as it was before. 7 And the king
said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will
give thee a reward. 8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give
me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor
drink water in this place: 9 for so was it charged me by the word of the Lord,
saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou
camest. 10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to
Beth-el.
11 Now there dwelt
an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that
the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto
the king, them they told also to their father. 12 And their father said unto
them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went,
which came from Judah. 13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they
saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, 14 and went after the man of God, and
found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God
that camest from Judah? And he said, I am. 15 Then he said unto him, Come home
with me, and eat bread. 16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in
with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: 17
for it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor
drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. 18 He said
unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the
word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may
eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. 19 So he went back with him,
and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
20 And it came to
pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came unto the prophet
that brought him back: 21 and he cried unto the man of God that came from
Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth
of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded
thee, 22 but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of
the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy
carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
23 And it came to
pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him
the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back. 24 And when he was
gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the
way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. 25 And,
behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion
standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old
prophet dwelt. 26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of
the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn
him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto him.
27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion
standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the
ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to
bury him. 30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over
him, saying, Alas, my brother! 31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him,
that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the
sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones: 32
for the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in
Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities
of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
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