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1 Kings · read by Alan Redpath
23 verses, in order. Only the verses Alan read aloud are shown.
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Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
1 Kings 13
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That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, "The LORD has spoken this sign: 'Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.'"Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, "Seize him!" But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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Then the king responded to the man of God, "Intercede with the LORD your God and pray that my hand may be restored." So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him as it was before.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward."Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: 'You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.'"Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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"Which way did he go?" their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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So the prophet said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted itRead from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" "I am," he replied.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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So the prophet said to the man of God, "Come home with me and eat some bread."Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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But the man replied, "I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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For I have been told by the word of the LORD: 'You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.'"Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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Then the prophet replied, "I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.'" The old prophet was lying to him,Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, "It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him."Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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Then the old prophet instructed his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled it,Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity
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Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.Read from KJV · Essence of Christianity