Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
10 So he did not go back the same way he had come, but by another road.
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So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
11 At that time there was an old prophet living in Bethel. His sons came and told him what the prophet from Judah had done in Bethel that day and what he had said to King Jeroboam.
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Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to the king.
12 "Which way did he go when he left?" the old prophet asked them. They showed him the road
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Their father asked them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him which road the man of God from Judah had taken.
13 and he told them to saddle his donkey for him. They did so, and he rode off
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So he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And when they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
14 down the road after the prophet from Judah and found him sitting under an oak tree. "Are you the prophet from Judah?" he asked. "I am," the man answered.
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and rode after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
15 "Come home and have a meal with me," he said.
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So the prophet said to him, “Come home with me and eat.”
16 But the prophet from Judah answered, "I can't go home with you or accept your hospitality. And I won't eat or drink anything with you here,
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The man of God said, “I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
17 because the Lord has commanded me not to eat or drink a thing, and not to return home the same way I came."
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I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’ ”
18 Then the old prophet from Bethel said to him, "I, too, am a prophet just like you, and at the Lord's command an angel told me to take you home with me and offer you my hospitality." But the old prophet was lying.
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The old prophet answered, “I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the LORD: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” (But he was lying to him.)
19 So the prophet from Judah went home with the old prophet and had a meal with him.
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So the man of God returned with him and ate and drank in his house.
20 As they were sitting at the table, the word of the Lord came to the old prophet,
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While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the old prophet who had brought him back.
21 and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, "The Lord says that you disobeyed him and did not do what he commanded.
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He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you.
22 Instead, you returned and ate a meal in a place he had ordered you not to eat in. Because of this you will be killed, and your body will not be buried in your family grave."
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You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.’ ”
23 After they had finished eating, the old prophet saddled the donkey for the prophet from Judah,
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When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his donkey for him.
24 who rode off. On the way a lion met him and killed him. His body lay on the road, and the donkey and the lion stood beside it.
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As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
25 Some men passed by and saw the body on the road, with the lion standing near by. They went on into Bethel and reported what they had seen.
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Some people who passed by saw the body lying there, with the lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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