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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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the word of the LORD
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"""A great clamour,"" says Dr. Kennicott, ""has been raised against this part of history, on account of God's denouncing sentence on the true prophet by the mouth of the false prophet; but if we examine with attention the original words here, they will be found to signify either he who brought him back, or, whom he had brought back; for the very same words, asher heshivo, occur again, 1Ki 13:23, where they are now translated, whom he had brought back; and where they cannot be translated otherwise. This being the case, we are at liberty to consider the words of the LORD as delivered to the true prophet, thus brought back; and then the sentence is pronounced by God himself, calling to him out of heaven, as in Gen 22:11. And that this doom was thus pronounced by God, not by the false prophet, we are assured in 1Ki 13:26. 'The LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, according to the word of the LORD, which He spake unto him.' Josephus [and also the Arabic] asserts, that the sentence was declared by God to the true pro" |
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1Ki 13:23 |
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. |
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Gen 22:11 |
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here [am] I. |
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1Ki 13:26 |
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. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "1 Kings 13:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/1Ki/13/20.html>.
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