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First Book of Kings, Chapter 13

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1 Kings 13 NASB - New American Standard Bible1 Kings 13 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 13 of 1 Kings—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now behold, there came 1a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar 2to burn incense.
  2. 3He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, 4Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”
  3. Then he gave a [a]sign the same day, saying, “5This is the [b]sign which the LORD has spoken, ‘Behold, the altar shall be split apart and the [c]ashes which are on it shall be poured out.’”
  4. Now when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” But his hand which he stretched out against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.
  5. The altar also was split apart and the [d]ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the [e]sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
  6. The king said to the man of God, “Please [f]6entreat the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” So 7the man of God [g]entreated the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
  7. Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and 8I will give you a reward.”
  8. But the man of God said to the king, “9If you were to give me half your house I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
  9. For so [h]it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way which you came.’”
  10. So he went another way and did not return by the way which he came to Bethel.
  11. ¶ Now 10an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his [i]sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they related to their father.
  12. Their father said to them, “[j]Which way did he go?” Now his sons [k]had seen the way which the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
  13. Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him and he rode away on it.
  14. So he went after the man of God and found him sitting under [l]an oak; and he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”
  15. Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”
  16. He said, “11I cannot return with you, nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
  17. For a command came to me 12by the word of the LORD, ‘You shall eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way which you came.’”
  18. He said to him, “13I also am a prophet like you, and 14an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But 15he lied to him.
  19. So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.
  20. ¶ 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;
  21. and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have [m]disobeyed the [n]command of the LORD, and have not observed the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,
  22. but have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water”; your body shall not come to the grave of your fathers.’”
  23. It came about after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
  24. Now when he had gone, 16a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body.
  25. And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road, and the lion standing beside the body; so they came and told it in the city where 17the old prophet lived.
  26. ¶ Now when the prophet who brought him back from the way heard it, he said, “It is the man of God, who [o]disobeyed the [p]command of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him.”
  27. Then he spoke to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it.
  28. He went and found his body thrown on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body; the lion had not eaten the body nor torn the donkey.
  29. So the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back, and he came to the city of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him.
  30. He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, “18Alas, my brother!”
  31. After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; 19lay my bones beside his bones.
  32. 20For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and 21against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of 22Samaria.”
  33. ¶ After this event Jeroboam did not return from his evil way, but 23again he made priests of the high places from among [q]all the people; 24any who would, he ordained, to be priests of the high places.
  34. [r]25This event became sin to the house of Jeroboam, 26even to blot it out and destroy it from off the face of the earth.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit wonder
  2. ^ Lit wonder
  3. ^ Lit ashes of fat
  4. ^ Lit ashes of fat
  5. ^ Lit wonder
  6. ^ Lit soften the face of
  7. ^ Lit softened the face of
  8. ^ Lit he commanded me
  9. ^ Lit son
  10. ^ Lit Where is the way he went
  11. ^ Some ancient versions read showed him
  12. ^ Or a terebinth
  13. ^ Lit rebelled against
  14. ^ Lit mouth
  15. ^ Lit rebelled against
  16. ^ Lit mouth
  17. ^ Or extremities of
  18. ^ Lit by this thing he became

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Ki 12:22; 2Ki 23:17
  2. ^ 1Ki 12:33
  3. ^ 1Ki 13:32
  4. ^ 2Ki 23:15, 16
  5. ^ Ex 4:1-5; Jg 6:17; Is 38:7; Jn 2:18; 1Co 1:22
  6. ^ Ex 8:8, 28; 9:28; 10:17; Ac 8:24; Jm 5:16
  7. ^ Lu 6:27, 28
  8. ^ 1Sa 9:7, 8; 2Ki 5:15
  9. ^ Nu 22:18; 24:13; 1Ki 13:16, 17
  10. ^ 1Ki 13:25; 2Ki 23:18
  11. ^ 1Ki 13:8, 9
  12. ^ 1Ki 20:35
  13. ^ Mt 7:15; 1Jo 4:1
  14. ^ Ga 1:8
  15. ^ Pr 12:19, 22; 19:5; Je 29:31, 32; Eze 13:8, 9; 1Ti 4:1, 2
  16. ^ 1Ki 20:36
  17. ^ 1Ki 13:11
  18. ^ Je 22:18
  19. ^ Ru 1:17; 2Ki 23:17, 18
  20. ^ 1Ki 13:2
  21. ^ Le 26:30; 1Ki 12:31
  22. ^ 1Ki 16:24; Jn 4:5; Ac 8:14
  23. ^ 1Ki 12:31, 32
  24. ^ Jg 17:5
  25. ^ 1Ki 12:30; 2Ki 17:21
  26. ^ 1Ki 14:10; 15:29, 30

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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