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* And , behold , there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el ; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to offer . * And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD , and said : 'O altar , altar , thus saith the LORD : Behold , a son shall be born unto the house of David , Josiah by name ; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that offer upon thee , and men 's bones shall they burn upon thee .' * And he gave a sign the same day saying : 'This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken : Behold , the altar shall be rent , and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out .' * And it came to pass , when the king heard the saying of the man of God , which he cried against the altar in Beth-el , that Jeroboam 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 back to him . * The altar also was rent , 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 . * And the king answered and said unto the man of God : 'Entreat now the favour of the LORD thy God , and pray for me , that my hand may be restored me .' And the man of God entreated the LORD , and the king 's hand was restored him , and became as it was before . * And the king said unto the man of God : 'Come home with me , and refresh thyself , and I will give thee a reward .' * And the man of God said unto 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 . * For 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 .' * So he went another way , and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el . * Now 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 . * And their father said unto them : 'What way went he ?' For his sons had seen what way the man of God went , that came from Judah . * And he said unto his sons : 'Saddle me the ass .' So they saddled him the ass ; and he rode thereon . * And he went after the man of God , and found him sitting under a terebinth ; and he said unto him : 'Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah ?' And he said : 'I am .' * Then he said unto him : 'Come home with me , and eat bread .' * 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 . * For it was said to me by the word of the LORD : Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there , nor turn back to go by the way that thou camest .' * And he said unto him : 'I also am a prophet as thou art ; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD , saying : Bring him back with thee into thy house , that he may eat bread and drink water .'--He lied unto him .-- * So he went back with him , and did eat bread in his house , and drank water . * And it came to pass , as they sat at the table , that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back . * And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah , saying : 'Thus saith the LORD : Forasmuch as thou hast rebelled against the word of the LORD , and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee , * but camest back , and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to thee : Eat no bread , and drink no water ; thy carcass shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers .' * And it came to pass , after he had eaten bread , and after he had drunk , that he saddled for him the ass , namely , for the prophet whom he had brought back . * And when he was gone , a lion met him by the way , and slew him ; and his carcass was cast in the way , and the ass stood by it ; the lion also stood by the carcass . * And , behold , men passed by , and saw the carcass cast in the way , and the lion standing by the carcass ; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt . * And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof , he said : 'It is the man of God , who rebelled against the word of the LORD ; therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion , which hath torn him , and slain him , according to the word of the LORD , which He spoke unto him .' * And he spoke to his sons , saying : 'Saddle me the ass .' And they saddled it . * And he went and found his carcass cast in the way , and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass ; the lion had not eaten the carcass , nor torn the ass . * And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God , and laid it upon the ass , and brought it back ; and he came to the city of the old prophet , to lament , and to bury him . * And he laid his carcass in his own grave ; and they made lamentation for him : 'Alas , my brother !' * And 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 wherein the man of God is buried ; lay my bones beside his bones . * For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el , and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria , shall surely come to pass .' * After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way , but made again from among all the people priests of the high places ; whosoever would , he consecrated him , that he might be one of the priests of the high places . * And by this thing there was sin unto the house of Jeroboam , even to cut it off , and to destroy it from off the face of the earth .

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