1 Kings 13
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1 Kings 13:16-23

16He said, “I cannot return with you nor go in with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

17For I was told by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall not eat bread nor drink water there, nor shall you return by going the way that you came.’ ”

18He answered him, “I too am a prophet, as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” But he lied to him.

19So the man of God went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.

20Now it happened as they were sitting at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back.

21And he cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you,

22but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which the Lord said to you, “You shall not eat bread nor drink water”; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers (ancestors).’ ”

23After the prophet of the house had eaten bread and after he had drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

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