1 Kings 14:30

14:30 Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other.

1 Kings 14:2

14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise¹ yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there.²

1 Kings 13:2-20

13:2 With the authority of the Lord³ he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’”⁴ 13:3 That day he also announced⁵ a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined:⁶ The altar will be split open and the ashes⁷ on it will fall to the ground.”⁸ 13:4 When the king heard what the prophet⁹ cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand¹⁰ and ordered,¹¹ “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up¹² and he could not pull it back. 13:5 The altar split open and the ashes¹³ fell from the altar to the ground,¹⁴ in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority.¹⁵ 13:6 The king pled with¹⁶ the prophet,¹⁷ “Seek the favor of¹⁸ the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor¹⁹ and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition.²⁰ 13:7 The king then said to the prophet, “Come home with me and have something to eat. I’d like to give a present.” 13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions,²¹ I could not go with you and eat and drink²² in this place. 13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders,²³ ‘Do not eat or drink²⁴ there and do not go home the way you came.’” 13:10 So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel.²⁵ When his sons came home, they told their father²⁶ everything the prophet²⁷ had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king.²⁸ 13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him²⁹ the road the prophet³⁰ from Judah had taken. 13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it 13:14 and took off after the prophet,³¹ whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet³² from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.” 13:15 He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.” 13:16 But he replied, “I can’t go back with you³³ or eat and drink³⁴ with you in this place. 13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders,³⁵ ‘Do not eat or drink³⁶ there; do not go back the way you came.’” 13:18 The old prophet then said,³⁷ “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority,³⁸ ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’”³⁹ But he was lying to him.⁴⁰ 13:19 So the prophet went back with him and ate and drank in his house.⁴¹

13:20 While they were sitting at the table, the Lord spoke through the old prophet⁴²

¹tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”

²tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

³tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

⁴sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.

⁵tn Heb “gave.”

⁶tn Heb “spoken.”

⁷tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

⁸tn Heb “will be poured out.”

⁹tn Heb “the man of God.”

¹⁰tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”

¹¹tn Heb “saying.”

¹²tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”

¹³tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

¹⁴tn Heb “were poured out from the altar.”

¹⁵tn Heb “according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.”

¹⁶tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”

¹⁷tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).

¹⁸tn Heb “appease the face of.”

¹⁹tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

²⁰tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”

²¹tn Heb “house.”

²²tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

²³tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying.”

²⁴tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

²⁵map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

²⁶tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

²⁷tn Heb “the man of God.”

²⁸tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

²⁹tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).

³⁰tn Heb “the man of God.”

³¹tn Heb “the man of God.”

³²tn Heb “the man of God.”

³³tn Heb “I am unable to return with you or to go with you.”

³⁴tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

³⁵tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

³⁶tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

³⁷tn Heb “and he said to him.”

³⁸tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

³⁹tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

⁴⁰tn Or “deceiving him.”

⁴¹tn Heb “and he returned with him and ate food in his house and drank water.”

⁴²tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back.”