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1 Kings 13:15

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So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

KJV

Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

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This verse in 1 Kings 13

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

found him sitting under an oak

on 1 Kings 13:14-15

He finds the man of God and invites him home for bread, the same invitation Jeroboam already made and the man of God already refused. Clarke reads the old prophet's motive as ordinary curiosity about the prophecy pronounced against Bethel. Nothing in the narrative before this point contradicts that reading.

This site's exposition

Come home with me and eat

The old prophet makes the same offer the king made at verse 7, a meal at home. The man of God refused the king. Matthew Henry asks whether he had forgotten Deuteronomy 8:3, that man lives on every word from the mouth of the LORD.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then said he unto him, come home with me, and eat bread. In which invitation no doubt he was hearty, and might have no ill design in it, only to have some conversation with him, as being a good man, and a prophet of the Lord, especially upon the subject of his prophecies at Bethel.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלָ֔יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • לֵ֥ךְcome

    lekhH1980 →1546 times

  • אִתִּ֖יwith me

    ʾitiH854 →929 times

  • הַבָּ֑יְתָהthe house towards

    habayetahH1004 →2046 times

  • וֶאֱכֹ֖לand eat

    veekholH398 →810 times

  • לָֽחֶם׃bread

    lachemH3899 →298 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Disobedient Prophet Is Slain by a Lion — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Disobedient Prophet Is Slain by a Lion — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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