¹⁷ For a ^[a]command came to me ^(A)by the word of the Lord: ‘You shall not eat bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way that you came.’” ¹⁸ Then he said to him, “^(B)I too am a prophet like you, and ^(C)an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But ^(D)he lied to him. ¹⁹ So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.

²⁰ Now it came about, as they were sitting down at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back; ²¹ and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you have ^[b]disobeyed the ^[c]command of the Lord, and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you, ²² but have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, “You are not to eat bread nor drink water”; your dead body will not come to the grave of your fathers.’” ²³ It came about after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back. ²⁴ Now when he had gone, ^(E)a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body. ²⁵ And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road, and the lion standing beside the body; so they came and told about it in the city where ^(F)the old prophet had lived.

²⁶ Now when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard about it, he said, “It is the man of God, who ^[d]disobeyed the ^[e]command of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, in accordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke to him.” ²⁷ Then he spoke to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it. ²⁸ Then he went and found his body thrown on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body; the lion had not eaten the body nor ^[f]harmed the donkey. ²⁹ So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him. ³⁰ He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, “^(G)Oh, my brother!” ³¹ And after he had buried him, he talked to his sons, saying, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; ^(H)lay my bones beside his bones. ^32 (I)For the thing will certainly come to pass which he cried out by the word of the Lord against the altar that is in Bethel, and ^(J)against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of ^(K)Samaria.”

³³ After this event, Jeroboam did not ^[g]abandon his evil way, but he ^(L)again ^[h]appointed priests of the high places from ^[i]all the people; ^(M)anyone who wanted, he ordained, and he became ^[j]one of the priests of the high places. ^34 [k](N)This event also became a sin of the house of Jeroboam, ^(O)even to wipe it out and eliminate it from the face of the earth.

³⁵ Now a man from ^(A)the sons of the prophets said to ^[a]another ^(B)by the word of the Lord, “Please strike me.” But the man refused to strike him.

Paul’s Vision

12 ^(A)Boasting is necessary, though it is not beneficial; but I will go on to visions and ^(B)revelations ^[a]of the Lord.

¹² For ^(A)I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a ^(B)revelation of Jesus Christ.