He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
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He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
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And 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:
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And 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.
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 13:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 13:8-9 The man of God said to the king, “Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place; for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’ ”
- Genesis 3:1-3 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”
- Numbers 22:13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.”
- Numbers 22:19 Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”
- Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
- Matthew 16:23 But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 13:16 And he said, I may not return…
1Ki 13:16 And 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:
Ver. 16. Neither will I eat bread.] Though I have need enough, yet I must be resolute, because God’s charge was absolute.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. In Beth-el, where thou desirest me to do…
i.e. In Beth-el, where thou desirest me to do it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he said unto him,.... That is, the old…
And he said unto him,.... That is, the old prophet said to the man of God:
I am a prophet also as thou art; meaning, that he was a prophet of the true God, and not of any idol deity; that he not only believed in him, and was a worshipper of him, but had revelations from him, and of the same things this man of God had, and that he believed that what he had prophesied of would certainly come to pass:
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and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the Lord; was sent and dispatched by the order of the Lord with the following message:
saying, bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water; and so be refreshed, and be fit to proceed on in his journey:
but he lied unto him; no messenger nor message being sent to him by the Lord, but was wholly a device and stratagem of his own to persuade the man of God to return with him, that he might have his company and conversation.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. in this place] The prophet had not gone…
16. in this place] The prophet had not gone far from Bethel before he sat down to rest. The events of the day had been such as to ask for it.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he said, I may not Heb. am not…
And he said, I may not Heb. am not able to return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place. The translation in that place" adopted by Wordsworth (after the Vulgate, in loco isto) does not agree with the Hebrew. And it is not required by the context. The tree was probably at no great distance from the town.
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