The Deception of the Old Prophet

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Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.

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Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.

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He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.

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He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”

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Then he said to him, “Come home with me, and eat bread.”

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He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.

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For it was said to me by the LORD’s word, ‘You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.’”

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He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the LORD’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

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

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As they sat at the table, the LORD’s word came to the prophet who brought him back;

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and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,

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but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water”; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”

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