So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.p>

As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.<n id="1" /> His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it.<n id="2" />

They divided up the land between them; Ahab went<n id="1" /> one way and Obadiah went the other.p>

&#8220;I am about to die.<n id="1" /> Be strong and become a man!

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He followed in his father&#8217;s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.<n id="2" />p>

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he followed in Jeroboam&#8217;s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.<n id="2" />p>

For the <sc>Lordsc> gave me strict orders,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Do not eat or drink<n id="2" /> there and do not go home the way you came.&#8217;&#8221;

This happened because of the sins he committed. He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and followed in Jeroboam&#8217;s footsteps and encouraged Israel to continue sinning.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">As Obadiah was traveling along, Elijah met him.<n id="1" /> When he recognized him, he fell facedown to the ground and said, &#8220;Is it really you, my master, Elijah?&#8221;

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and followed in the footsteps<n id="2" /> of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies,<n id="1" /> and they direct their prayers to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,<n id="3" />

At that time, when Jeroboam had left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road; the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah<n id="1" /> was wearing a brand new robe,

For the <sc>Lordsc> gave me strict orders,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Do not eat or drink<n id="2" /> there; do not go back the way you came.&#8217;&#8221;

Some men came by<n id="1" /> and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it.<n id="2" /> They went and reported what they had seen<n id="3" /> in the city where the old prophet lived.

He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;<n id="1" /> the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

&#8220;I raised you up<n id="1" /> from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam&#8217;s footsteps<n id="2" /> and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry.<n id="3" />