OET-RV 1KI chapter 13

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13 Then a prophet from of God came from Yehudah, taking Yahweh’s message to Bethel. as Yarobam (Jeroboam) was standing by the altar to burn incense. 2 The prophet called out against the altar with Yahweh’s message: “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says this: Listen, one of David’s descendants will have a son who’ll be named Yoshiyyah (Josiah), and he’ll sacrifice the priests from the hill temples on you—the ones who are burning incense on you. Yes, human bones will be burned on you.”[ref] 3 Then he offered them evidence that what he said came from Yahweh, “Listen, that altar will be broken into pieces, and the ashes in it will spill all over the ground.”

4 The moment the King Yarobam heard the message that the man of God had called out against the altar at Bethel, he called for the man to be arrested. However, the arm that he used to point to him over the altar suddenly became paralyzed and he wasn’t able to pull it back. 5 Then the altar itself broke open and ashes poured out onto the ground, exactly as Yahweh had promised through that man of God. 6 Then the king begged the prophet, “Please, pray to your God Yahweh for me, so my hand will return to normal.”

So the man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king was able to use his hand again. 7 “Come home with me,” the king told the prophet, “and have something to eat. Then I’ve got a gift to give you.”

8 But the man of God replied, “Even if you offered me half of your house, I wouldn’t go with you, and I wouldn’t eat or drink in this place. 9 Yahweh already told me not to eat or drink here, and not to return home by the same road I came on.” 10 Then he left for home taking a different route from the one he’d used to come to Bethel.

13:11 The old prophet from Bethel

11 Now at that time there was an old prophet who lived in Bethel, and his sons[fn] had been and told him all the news about what that man of God had done that day in Bethel and they told him the message that had been passed on to the king. 12 “Oh, what road did he take when he left?” their father asked, and indeed his sons had noticed which road the man of God from Yehudah had taken. 13 So he told his sons to saddle his donkey, and he rode off 14 after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak tree. “Are you the man of God,” he asked him, “who came from Yehudah?”

“I am,” he said.

15 “Come home with me and have something to eat.” he invited him.

16 “Sorry,” he replied. “I can’t go with you or visit your home, and I can’t eat or drink with you in this place, 17 because Yahweh instructed me not to eat or drink here, or to go home by the same road that I came on.”

18 Then the old prophet told him, “I’m also a prophet like you, and Yahweh sent a messenger to tell me that I should take you home with me so you can have something to eat and drink.” (But that was a lie.)

19 So the prophet accompanied him to his house and had a meal there. 20 Then while they were still seated at the table, Yahweh spoke through the old prophet, 21 and he called out to the man of God who’d come from Yehuda, “Yahweh says this: Because you have been rebellious against Yahweh and because you didn’t obey what Yahweh instructed you, 22 ◙

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13:11 This is singular in the Hebrew, but the rest of this segment suggests multiple sons.

OET-RV 1KI Chapter 13