OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 16

1 Kings 13:16

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

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1 Kings 13:13–19

13

He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.

14

He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”

He said, “I am.”

15

Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”

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

17

For it was said to me by the LORD’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread or drink water there, and don’t turn again to go by the way that you came.’”

18

He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the LORD’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

19

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

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