World English Bible
1 Kings 13:18
“He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" He lied to him.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 13
16
He said, "I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.
17
For it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, 'You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.
18
He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" He lied to him.
19
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
20
It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back;
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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