Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Kings 13:16
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But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
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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:
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He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
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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:
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1 Kings 13
14 and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
15 So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
16 But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
17 For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
18 Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
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