1 Kings 13:20
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New International Version (©1984)
While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the old prophet who had brought him back.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now it came about, as they were sitting down at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When they were sitting at the table, the LORD spoke his word to the old prophet who had brought back the man of God.

King James Bible
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:

American King James Version
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet that brought him back:

American Standard Version
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of Jehovah came unto the prophet that brought him back;

Bible in Basic English
But while they were seated at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had taken him back;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back:

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass as they sat at the table, that the word of Jehovah came to the prophet that brought him back;

English Revised Version
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:

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet that brought him back:

World English Bible
It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back;

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass -- they are sitting at the table -- and a word of Jehovah is unto the prophet who brought him back,

Geneva Study Bible

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:

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:11-22 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 bring the good prophet back. It was all a lie. Believers are most in danger of being drawn from their duty by plausible pretences of holiness. We may wonder that the wicked prophet went unpunished, while the holy man of God was suddenly and severely punished. What shall we make of this? The judgments of God are beyond our power to fathom; and there is a judgment to come. Nothing can excuse any act of wilful disobedience. This shows what they must expect who hearken to the great deceiver. They that yield to him as a tempter, will be terrified by him as a tormentor. Those whom he now fawns upon, he will afterwards fly upon; and whom he draws into sin, he will try to drive to despair.


1 Kings 13:19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.
1 Kings 13:21 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have disobeyed the command of the LORD, and have not observed the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you, (NASB ©1995)

Prophet Sat Seated Sitting Table Word


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:

the word of the Lord
A great clamour,' says Dr. Kennicott, has been raised against this part of history, on account of God's denouncing sentence on the {true} prophet by the mouth of the {false} prophet; but if we examine with attention the original words here, they will be found to signify either {he who brought him back} or {whom he had brought back}; for the very same words, ahser heshivo, occur again, ver. 23, where they are now translated, {whom he had brought back}; and where they cannot be translated otherwise. This being the case, we are at liberty to consider the words of the Lord as delivered to the {true} prophet, thus brought back; and then the sentence is pronounced by God himself, calling to him out of heaven, and in Ge 22:11. and that this doom was thus pronounced by God, not by the false prophet, we are assured in verse 26. `The Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, according to the word of the Lord, which HE spake unto him.' Josephus [and also the {Arabic}] asserts, that the sentence was declared by God to the {true} prophet. Nu 23:5,16 24:4,16-24 Mt 7:22 Joh 11:51 1Co 13:2

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