1And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.stylus1 Kings 12:32, 1 Kings 12:33, 2 Kings 23:17, 1 Kings 12:32, 1 Kings 12:332And 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 to 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 thee.stylusEzekiel 36:1, 2 Kings 22:1, 2 Kings 22:2, 2 Kings 23:15, 2 Kings 23:183And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be split apart, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.stylus1 Corinthians 1:22, 1 Corinthians 1:22, Exodus 4:3, Exodus 4:5, Judges 6:174And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, who had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it to him again.stylusRevelation 11:5, Revelation 11:5, 2 Chronicles 18:25, 2 Chronicles 18:27, 2 Chronicles 18:255The altar also was split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.stylusMark 16:20, 1 Kings 22:35, 1 Kings 13:3, 1 Kings 22:28, Deuteronomy 18:226And the king answered and said to the man of God, Entreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.stylusActs 8:24, Exodus 10:17, Exodus 8:8, Exodus 9:28, Acts 8:247And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.stylus2 Kings 5:15, 2 Kings 5:15, 1 Samuel 9:7, 1 Samuel 9:8, 1 Samuel 9:78And the man of God said to the king, If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:stylusNumbers 24:13, Numbers 24:13, Numbers 22:18, Numbers 22:18, Exodus 5:39For 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.stylusNumbers 16:26, 1 Samuel 15:22, Job 23:12, Deuteronomy 13:13, Deuteronomy 13:1810So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.stylus11Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them they told also to their father.stylus2 Kings 23:18, 2 Kings 23:18, Matthew 7:22, Numbers 24:2, Ezekiel 13:212And their father said to them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, who came from Judah.stylus13And he said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey: and he rode on it,stylus1 Kings 13:27, Judges 10:4, Judges 5:10, 2 Samuel 19:26, Numbers 22:2114And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said to him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am .stylusJohn 4:34, Philippians 4:12, Philippians 4:13, John 4:6, 2 Corinthians 11:2715Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.stylus16And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:stylus1 Kings 13:8, 1 Kings 13:9, 1 Kings 13:8, 1 Kings 13:9, Matthew 4:1017For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.stylus1 Kings 20:35, 1 Kings 20:35, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, 1 Kings 13:118He said to him, I am a prophet also as thou art ; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to him.stylus1 John 4:1, 1 John 4:1, Matthew 7:15, Matthew 7:15, Numbers 22:3519So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.stylusDeuteronomy 18:20, Genesis 3:6, 2 Peter 2:18, 2 Peter 2:19, Deuteronomy 13:520And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet that brought him back:stylusNumbers 24:16, Numbers 24:24, John 11:51, Numbers 23:16, Matthew 7:2221And he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,stylus2 Samuel 12:9, 2 Samuel 12:11, Esther 6:13, 1 Samuel 15:19, Revelation 3:1922But hast returned, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of which the LORD said to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy body shall not come to the sepulchre of thy fathers.stylus1 Kings 13:30, Jeremiah 22:18, Jeremiah 22:19, Isaiah 14:18, Isaiah 14:2023And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the donkey, that is, for the prophet whom he had brought back.stylus24And when he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it, the lion also stood by the body.stylus1 Kings 20:36, 1 Kings 20:36, 1 Peter 4:17, 1 Peter 4:18, 2 Kings 2:2425And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.stylus1 Kings 13:11, 1 Kings 13:1126And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him to the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to him.stylusEzekiel 9:6, Ezekiel 9:6, 1 Corinthians 11:30, Psalms 119:120, Hebrews 12:2827And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. And they saddled him .stylus28And he went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.stylusDaniel 6:22, Daniel 6:24, Jeremiah 5:22, Jeremiah 5:23, Acts 16:2629And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it upon the donkey, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.stylus30And he laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!stylusJeremiah 22:18, Jeremiah 22:18, Acts 8:2, 1 Kings 14:13, Acts 8:231And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:stylus2 Kings 23:17, 2 Kings 23:18, 2 Kings 23:17, 2 Kings 23:18, Luke 16:2232For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.stylus1 Kings 16:24, 1 Kings 16:24, 1 Kings 13:2, 1 Kings 13:2, Leviticus 26:3033After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.stylus2 Chronicles 11:15, 2 Chronicles 13:9, 2 Chronicles 11:15, 2 Chronicles 13:9, 1 Kings 12:3134And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from the face of the earth.stylus1 Kings 15:29, 1 Kings 15:30, 1 Kings 14:10, 1 Kings 12:30, 1 Kings 15:29