1 Kings 13:9

Translations

Modern

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.’”

Traditional

For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

Literal

For so it was commanded me by the word of YHWH, saying, ‘You shall not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way that you came.’”

Latin

…sic enim mandatum est mihi in sermone Domini præcipientis: Non comedes panem, neque bibes aquam, nec reverteris per viam qua venisti.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.’”

Notes

1 Kings 13:1–10

The story of the unnamed man of God who spoke against Jeroboam’s false altar at Bethel shows the authority of God’s word. This prophecy even gave a personal name connected with an event that would happen much later (2 Kings 23:15–20).

Other examples are Isaiah’s prophecy of Cyrus as a future ruler (Isaiah 44:28; 45:1) and Micah’s prophecy that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). Prophecies like these give assurance that God is in control of history and knows all things (see Isaiah 42:9).

Theme notes and profiles

Jeroboam I Prophets in 1 Kings

Events

Reign of Jeroboam I

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