20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” 15 But the man refused to wound him.
1 tn Heb “Look.” The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect.
2 tn Heb “the man of God.”
3 tn Heb “came by the word of the
4 tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the
5 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
6 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the
7 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
8 tn Heb “and he said to him.”
9 tn Heb “by the word of the
10 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
11 tn Or “deceiving him.”
12 tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”
13 tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.
14 tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”
15 tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the