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1 Kings · read by Greg Locke
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1 Kings 13
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And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, "O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: 'A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.'"Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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But the man of God replied, "If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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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 · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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Then the old prophet instructed his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled it,Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God
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Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, "Oh, my brother!"Read from KJV · The Dynamics and the Downfall of the Man of God