World English Bible
1 Kings 13:11
“Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 13
for so was it commanded me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.
So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he came to Bethel.
Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
He said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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