1 Kings 13:18

18 And he said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.

1 Kings 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 Kings 13:18 In-Context

16 And he said, "I may not return with you, or go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place;

17 for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.'"

18 And he said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.

19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

20 And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back;