1 Kings 13

¹ And lo, a man of Elohim has come from Judah, by the word of Yahweh, unto Beth-El, and Jeroboam is standing by the altar - to make perfume; ² and he calls against the altar, by the word of Yahweh, and said, "Altar! altar! thus said Yahweh, Lo, a son is born to the house of David - Josiah his name - and he has sacrificed on you the priests of the high places who are making perfume on you, and bones of man are burnt on you." ³ And he has given on that day a sign, saying, "This [is] the sign that Yahweh has spoken, Lo, the altar is rent, and the ashes poured forth that [are] on it." ⁴ And it comes to pass, at the king's hearing the word of the man of Elohim that he calls against the altar in Beth-El, that Jeroboam puts forth his hand from off the altar, saying, "Catch him"; and his hand is dried up that he has put forth against him, and he is not able to bring it back unto him, ⁵ and the altar is rent, and the ashes poured forth from the altar, according to the sign that the man of Elohim had given by the word of Yahweh. ⁶ And the king answers and said unto the man of Elohim, "Appease, I pray you, the face of Yahweh your Elohim, and pray for me, and my hand does come back unto me"; and the man of Elohim appeases the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king comes back unto him, and it is as at the beginning. ⁷ And the king speaks unto the man of Elohim, "Come in with me to the house, and refresh yourself, and I give to you a gift." ⁸ And the man of Elohim said unto the king, "If you do give to me the half of your house, I do not go in with you, nor do I eat bread, nor do I drink water, in this place; ⁹ for so He commanded me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You do not eat bread nor drink water, nor turn back in the way that you have come." ¹⁰ And he goes on in another way, and has not turned back in the way in which he came in unto Beth-El. ¹¹ And a certain aged prophet is dwelling in Beth-El, and his son comes and recounts to him all the deed that the man of Elohim has done to-day in Beth-El, the words that he has spoken unto the king, yea, they recount them to their father. ¹² And their father said unto them, "Where [is] this - the way he has gone?" and his sons see the way that the man of Elohim has gone who came from Judah. ¹³ And he said unto his sons, "Saddle for me the ass", and they saddle for him the ass, and he rides on it, ¹⁴ and goes after the man of Elohim, and finds him sitting under the oak, and said unto him, "Are you the man of Elohim who have come from Judah?" and he said, "I [am]." ¹⁵ And he said unto him, "Come with me to the house, and eat bread." ¹⁶ And he said, "I am not able to turn back with you, and to go in with you, nor do I eat bread or drink with you water in this place, ¹⁷ for a word [is] unto me by the word of Yahweh, You do not eat bread nor drink there water, you do not turn back to go in the way in which you came." ¹⁸ And he said to him, "I also [am] a prophet like you, and a messenger spoke unto me by the word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you unto your house, and he does eat bread and drink water"; - he has lied to him. ¹⁹ And he turns back with him, and eats bread in his house, and drinks water. ²⁰ And it comes to pass - they are sitting at the table - and a word of Yahweh is unto the prophet who brought him back, ²¹ and he calls unto the man of Elohim who came from Judah, saying, "Thus said Yahweh, Because that you have provoked the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the command that Yahweh your Elohim charged you, ²² and turn back and do eat bread and drink water in the place of which He said unto you, You do not eat bread nor drink water - your carcase comes not in unto the burying-place of your fathers." ²³ And it comes to pass, after his eating bread, and after his drinking, that he saddles for him the ass, for the prophet whom he had brought back, ²⁴ and he goes, and a lion finds him in the way, and puts him to death, and his carcase is cast in the way, and the ass is standing near it, and the lion is standing near the carcase. ²⁵ And lo, men are passing by, and see the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing near the carcase, and they come and speak [of it] in the city in which the old prophet is dwelling. ²⁶ And the prophet who brought him back out of the way hears and said, "It [is] the man of Elohim who provoked the mouth of Yahweh, and Yahweh gives him to the lion, and it destroys him, and puts him to death, according to the word of Yahweh that he spoke to him." ²⁷ And he speaks unto his sons saying, "Saddle for me the ass", and they saddle [it]. ²⁸ And he goes and finds his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion are standing near the carcase - the lion has not eaten the carcase nor destroyed the ass. ²⁹ And the prophet takes up the carcase of the man of Elohim, and places it on the ass, and brings it back, and the old prophet comes in unto the city to mourn and to bury him, ³⁰ and he places his carcase in his own grave, and they mourn for him, "Oh, my brother!" ³¹ And it comes to pass, after his burying him, that he speaks unto his sons, saying, "At my death - you have buried me in the burying-place in which the man of Elohim is buried; near his bones place my bones; ³² for the word certainly comes to pass that he called by the word of Yahweh concerning the altar which [is] Beth-El, and concerning all the houses of the high places that [are] in cities of Samaria." ³³ After this thing Jeroboam has not turned from his evil way, and turns back, and makes of the extremities of the people priests of high places; he who is desirous he consecrates his hand, and he is of the priests of the high places. ³⁴ And in this thing is the sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to cut [it] off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the ground.