1 Kings 13:9

13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ¹  ‘Do not eat or drink ²  there and do not go home the way you came.’”

1 Kings 13:17

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ³  ‘Do not eat or drink ⁴  there; do not go back the way you came.’”

1 Kings 13:22

13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” ⁵  Therefore ⁶  your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying.”

² tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

³ tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

⁴ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

⁵ 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.’”

⁶ tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

⁷ tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”