1 Kings 13:10

in 1 Kings 13

So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.

KJV

So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth–el.

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Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

Eat no bread, nor drink water

on 1 Kings 13:9-10

The command not to eat, not to drink, and not to return by the same road is laid on the prophet as a positive test distinct from the message itself, obedience proven by a rule that has no reason given in the text. He keeps it exactly, eating nothing and choosing a different way home. Barnes reads the extra command as designed to test obedience under a plain, arbitrary charge rather than a moral one, which is what makes the rest of the chapter possible.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

An old prophet. A false prophet. 6 According to some opinions the prophet was Michah. Others opine it was either Amatzyah, or Yiddo, or Yonoson the son of Gershom.—Radak

Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Kings 13:11:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

Hebrew	Sound	Meaning	Word study	In the Bible
וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ	vaiyelekh	and he went	H1980 →	1546 times
בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ	bederekh	by a way	H1870 →	707 times
אַחֵ֑ר	ʾacher	another	H312 →	166 times
וְלֹֽא־	velo'-	and not	H3808 →	5168 times
שָׁ֣ב	shav	he returned	H7725 →	1056 times
בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ	baderekh	by the way	H1870 →	707 times
אֲשֶׁ֛ר	ʾasher	which	H834 →	5497 times
בָּ֥א	ba'	he had come	H935 →	2568 times
בָ֖הּ	vah	by it
אֶל־	ʾel-	to	H413 →	5510 times
בֵּֽית־	beit-	Beth-	H1008 →	142 times
אֵֽל׃ פ	ʾel	-el	H1008 →	142 times