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1 And, be­hold, there came a man of God out of Ju­dah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jer­oboam stood by the al­tar to burn in­cense. 2 And he cried against the al­tar in the word of the LORD, and said, O al­tar, al­tar, thus saith the LORD; Be­hold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josi­ah by name; and upon thee shall he of­fer the priests of the high places that burn in­cense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. 3 And he gave a sign the same day, say­ing, This is the sign which the LORD hath spo­ken; Be­hold, the al­tar shall be rent, and the ash­es that are upon it shall be poured out. 4 And it came to pass, when king Jer­oboam heard the say­ing of the man of God, which had cried against the al­tar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the al­tar, say­ing, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. 5 The al­tar also was rent, and the ash­es poured out from the al­tar, ac­cord­ing to the sign which the man of God had giv­en by the word of the LORD. 6 And the king an­swered and said unto the man of God, In­treat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be re­stored me again. And the man of God be­sought the LORD, and the king's hand was re­stored him again, and be­came as it was be­fore. 7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and re­fresh thy­self, and I will give thee a re­ward. 8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, nei­ther will I eat bread nor drink wa­ter in this place: 9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, say­ing, Eat no bread, nor drink wa­ter, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. 10 So he went an­oth­er way, and re­turned not by the way that he came to Bethel. 11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spo­ken unto the king, them they told also to their fa­ther. 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 him the ass: and he rode there­on, 14 And went af­ter the man of God, and found him sit­ting un­der an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Ju­dah? And he said, I am. 15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. 16 And he said, I may not re­turn with thee, nor go in with thee: nei­ther will I eat bread nor drink wa­ter with thee in this place: 17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink wa­ter there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. 18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an an­gel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, say­ing, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink wa­ter. But he lied unto him. 19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank wa­ter. 20 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: 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Ju­dah, say­ing, Thus saith the LORD, Foras­much as thou hast dis­obeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the com­mand­ment which the LORD thy God com­mand­ed thee, 22 But camest back, and hast eat­en bread and drunk wa­ter in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no wa­ter; thy car­case shall not come unto the sepul­chre of thy fa­thers. 23 And it came to pass, af­ter he had eat­en bread, and af­ter he had drunk, that he sad­dled for him the ass, ­to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back. 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his car­case was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the car­case. 25 And, be­hold, men passed by, and saw the car­case cast in the way, and the lion stand­ing by the car­case: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. 26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was dis­obe­di­ent unto the word of the LORD: there­fore the LORD hath de­liv­ered him unto the li­on, which hath torn him, and slain him, ac­cord­ing to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him. 27 And he spake to his sons, say­ing, Sad­dle me the ass. And they sad­dled him. 28 And he went and found his car­case cast in the way, and the ass and the lion stand­ing by the car­case: the lion had not eat­en the car­case, nor torn the ass. 29 And the prophet took up the car­case of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him. 30 And he laid his car­case in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my broth­er! 31 And it came to pass, af­ter he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, say­ing, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepul­chre where­in the man of God is buried; lay my bones be­side his bones: 32 For the say­ing which he cried by the word of the LORD against the al­tar in Bethel, and against all the hous­es of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall sure­ly come to pass. 33 Af­ter this thing Jer­oboam re­turned not from his evil way, but made again of the low­est of the peo­ple priests of the high places: whoso­ev­er would, he con­se­crat­ed him, and he be­came one of the priests of the high places. 34 And this thing be­came sin unto the house of Jer­oboam, even to cut it off, and to de­stroy it from off the face of the earth.