1 Kings 13:10

So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

In Context

9For it so was charged me by the word of the LORD, saying: Thou shalt eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that thou camest.'

11Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and the words which he had spoken unto the king, and they told them unto their father.

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Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 13:2-11

A Prophet Sent to Jeroboam; the Withering of Jeroboam's Hand. ( b. c. 974.) 1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord , and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord ; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon… Read the whole commentary →

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