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1 Kings 13
Book of Kings
1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of
the Lord unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar,
altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of
David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high
places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the Lord hath
spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be
poured out.
4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God,
which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the
altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him,
dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
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King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of
God, he put forth his hand from the altar, which
he put forth against him, dried up, so that he
could not pull it in again to him.
5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to
the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of
the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And
the man of God besought the Lord, and the king's hand was restored him again,
and became as it was before.
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Notice King Jeroboam said, the face of the Lord
thy God
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King Jeroboam asking for a healing from God
7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself,
and I will give thee a reward.
8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house,
I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this
place:
9 For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor
drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
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1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the
old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are
unleavened. For even Christ our Passover
is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not
with old leaven,
neither with the leaven
of malice and
wickedness; but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle
not to
company with fornicators:
10 Yet not
altogether with the
fornicators of this world, or
with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters;
for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11 But now I have written unto
you not to keep
company, if any man that
is called a brother be a
fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater,
or a railer, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner;
with such an one no
not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that
are without? do not
ye judge them that are within?
13 But them that
are without God judgeth.
Therefore put away
from among yourselves that wicked person.
10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.
11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all
the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he
had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what
way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass:
and he rode thereon,
14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he
said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I
am.
15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I
eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
17 For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor
drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me
by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that
he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came
unto the prophet that brought him back:
21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the
Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept
the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,
22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the
which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase
shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that
he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his
carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the
carcase.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion
standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old
prophet dwelt.
26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he
said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord:
therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and
slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto him.
27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion
standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the
ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to
bury him.
30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying,
Alas, my brother!
31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons,
saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is
buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in
Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of
Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of
the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he
consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and
to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26:28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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