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1 Kings · read by John Hunter
38 verses, in order. Only the verses John read aloud are shown.
1 Kings 13
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Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.Read from KJV · The Man of God - 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 Man of God - 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 · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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So the prophet said to the man of God, "Come home with me and eat some bread."Read from KJV · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.'"Read from KJV · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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Then the old prophet instructed his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled it,Read from KJV · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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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 Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, "When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,Read from KJV · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
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for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass."Read from KJV · The Man of God - 1 Kings 13
1 Kings 17
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Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!"Read from KJV · Elijah
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"Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.Read from KJV · Elijah
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And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."Read from KJV · Elijah
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So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.Read from KJV · Elijah
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The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook.Read from KJV · Elijah
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Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.Read from KJV · Elijah