1 Reyes 13:18

18 Sin embargo, el profeta anciano le dijo:
—Yo también soy profeta, como tú. Y un ángel me dio este mandato de parte del Señor
: “Llévalo a tu casa para que coma y beba algo”.
Pero el anciano le estaba mintiendo.

1 Reyes 13:18 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 13:18

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: 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.

1 Reyes 13:18 In-Context

16 —No, no puedo —respondió—. No se me permite comer ni beber nada en este lugar,

17 porque el Señor
me dio este mandato: “No comas ni bebas nada mientras estés allí y no regreses a Judá por el mismo camino”.

18 Sin embargo, el profeta anciano le dijo:
—Yo también soy profeta, como tú. Y un ángel me dio este mandato de parte del Señor
: “Llévalo a tu casa para que coma y beba algo”.
Pero el anciano le estaba mintiendo.

19 Así que regresaron juntos, y el hombre de Dios comió y bebió en la casa del profeta.

20 Mientras estaban sentados a la mesa, vino un mandato del Señor
al profeta anciano,