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1 Kings 13:20

as they sat at the table They were having a proper meal. The expression -to eat bread and to drink water" signifies -to take food and drink" and must not be understood literally. The idea meant to be conveyed by the prohibition is that nothing of any sort was to be taken.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Kings 13:20. _THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO THE PROPHET THAT_ _BROUGHT HIM BACK_] "A great clamour," says Dr. _Kennicott_, "has been raised against this part of the history, on account of Go...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. JEROBOAM AND REHOBOAM AND THEIR REIGN CHAPTER 13 The Man of God from Judah _ 1. The man of God and Jeroboam (1 Kings 13:1)_ 2. The temptation and lying message (1 Kings 13:11) 3. Judgment annou...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 Kings 12:25 to 1 Kings 13:34. THE SIN OF JEROBOAM. THE PROPHET AT BETHEL. The sources cannot be exactly determined. Some (see Cent.B) may belong to the annals of the northern kingdom, but the tone i...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. THE CONDEMNATION OF THE MAN OF GOD 13:20-26 TRANSLATION (20) And it came to pass as they were sitting at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet who brought him back; (21) and h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SO HE WENT BACK WITH HIM, AND DID EAT BREAD IN HIS HOUSE, AND DRANK WATER._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DISOBEDIENT PROPHET 2. Josiah] for the fulfilment see 2 Kings 23:15. Some 300 years separated the prediction from the event, and the mention by name of the king destined to accomplish it is unlike...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 13 A *PROPHET WARNS JEROBOAM The *kingdom that David and Solomon used to rule had divided into two *kingdoms. The northern *tribes were...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME. — It is, perhaps, the most terrible feature in the history that the Divine sentence is spoken — no doubt, as in the case of Balaam, unwillingly — through the very lips which...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֕י הֵ֥ם יֹשְׁבִ֖ים אֶל ־הַ שֻּׁלְחָ֑ן

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    JEROBOAM AND THE MAN OF GOD 1 Kings 13:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God." - 1 John 4:1 WE are told that Jeroboam, whose position probably made him r...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SIGN UPON SIGN UNHEEDED 1 Kings 13:20 There is a tragic note in this paragraph. The man of God had performed God's errand bravely and well, and his words were verified by the result; but he perished...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter are two lessons of supreme value; first, the patient grace of God, and, second, the solemn responsibility of such as bear His message. The first of these is brought out in the story of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Table. After this the Masorets place a piska, or circle, to denote some omission, which the Syriac version alone supplies; "and did eat." (Kennicott) --- Back. Some translate, "whom he had brought ba...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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 hi...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Solomon was now at the height of his glory, a vivid type of a greater than Solomon. And it is only when we see that he really does thus prefigure the Lord Jesus as King that we can understand the impo...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE PROPHET OF JUDAH_ ‘The prophet of Judah.’ 1 Kings 13:1 The altar at Beth-el was an ill-omened altar. The shadow of ruin was on it from the first. On the very morning of its inauguration, when...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE DISOBEDIENT PROPHET_ ‘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,’ etc. 1 Kings 13:20 I. CONSIDER WHAT WAS THE MISSION...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But the testimony and the judgment of God tarried not according to the mercy of God towards His people. Prophecy immediately re-appears; for the faithful love of God to His people never grows weary. H...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY SAT AT THE TABLE,.... The old prophet, with his sons, and the man of God; the Arabic version adds, "and did eat", there being a pause in the Hebrew text, as if something w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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: Ver. 20. _And it came to pass, as they sat at the table._] Where this prophet was...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The word of the Lord came_, &c. God obliged the prophet, who had caused him to sin, to denounce a punishment against him for it, that it might the more affect him; nothing being more piercing than to...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ieroboams hand, that offered violence to him that prophesied against his altar at Bethel, withereth, 6 and at the prayer of the Prophet is restored. 7 The Prophet, refusing the kings intertainment...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, while the meal was still in progress, THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO THE PROPHET THAT BROUGHT HIM BACK, this time in a true Revelation...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROPHET PUNISHED FOR HIS DISOBEDIENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A SOLEMN MESSAGE FROM GOD (vs.1-10) God would not leave Jereboam without clear witness to God's abhorrence of the evil that Jereboam had introduced in Israel. The Lord sent a man of God from Judah to...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-22 The old prophet's conduct proves that he was not really a godly man. When the change took place under Jeroboam, he preferred his ease and interest to his religion. He took a very bad method to...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AS THEY SAT AT THE TABLE; there the prophet meets with a severe judgment, where he was pleasing himself with this seasonable refreshment. THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME by secret instinct into his mind, as...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 13:20 sat H3427 (H8802) table H7979 word H1697 LORD H3068 prophet H5030 back H7725 (H8689)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE OLD PROPHET AND THE MAN OF GOD (1 KINGS 13:11). Meanwhile dwelling in Bethel was an old prophet who had served YHWH for many years. The fact that he was not present at the celebrations taking pla...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warning of punishment for idolatry. Disobedience and death of the prophet. CHARACTERS: God, Jeroboam, disobedient prophet, lying prophet. CONCLUSION: If we offer to God that which is an ab...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Kings 13:1. _Bethel._ See the notes on 1 Kings 12 1 Kings 12. The man of God from Judah is called Jaddo by Josephus. 1 Kings 13:2. _Josiah._ Cyrus is m

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And it came to pass as they sat at the table._ THE TWO ERRING PROPHETS 1. If the word of God has spoken, the vision or the interpretation which essentially contradicts it cannot be followed without...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now there dwelt an old man in Bethel _ THE NAMELESS PROPHET This passage forms part of a very remarkable narrative. The miraculous element is so prominent that certain critics would have the chapte...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 13:1 Just as Solomon had stood at his altar in Jerusalem (1 Kings 8:22), Jeroboam now stands at the altar of his new temple in Bethel, ready to dedicate it to his gods. However

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 13:7 Jeroboam’s invitation to the MAN OF GOD to dine and receive a REWARD is an attempt to buy his loyalty, perhaps hoping for the curse on the altar to be reversed. The invita...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 13:11. AN OLD PROPHET IN BETHEL: who had been faithless amid surrounding faithlessness. His alertness to win the prophet of Judah to his house arose from (1)...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And so there came a young man out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel: where Jeroboam was standing by the altar ready to burn incense. And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, an...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:2; Genesis 22:11; John 11:51; Matthew 7:22; Nu

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