But the man of God said unto the King, If thou wouldest give me half thine house, I would not go with thee, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place.

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 13:9 Or, he charged me: to wit, an Angel.
  2. 1 Kings 13:9 Seeing he had the express word of God, he ought not to have declined therefrom neither for the persuasion of man nor Angel.

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