I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 362

13-12 THE MONARCHICAL PERIOD.--1. KINGS. 14-»

16 18 20 21 22 Can you tell what road ha His sous happened to have seen

the way the Man of GOD who came from Iudah went. He consequently Sadd1e my ass. And they saddled the ass, and he mounted it, and went after the Man of Gon, and found him sitting under Are you the Man of GOD, who came from

Come with me to my house and eat bread. I am not able to

tum back with you, or to go with you to eat bread; not can I drink water with you, in this place, for the Message of the EvER·LrvING com· mended me, ‘ You shall. not eat food', nor drinkwater, nor even tum back to go by the road on which you I also am a

Preacher like yourself, and a Divine Messenger spoke to me by command of the Evmz»1,1vmc, tosay, ‘Take him back with you to your house, and let him eat food and drink But he lied to him. He consequently returned with

him, and ate bread in- his house, anddrank water.-·-and they both sat at the table, when the word of the EVER-LIVING came to the- Preacher, with whom he had returned, and he exclaimed tothe Man of GOD who came from judah, “ Thus says the EVER-L1v1NG, ‘Alas.l for your dis- obeying the direction of the EVER- 1.1v1NG I and not regarding the command which your EVER-r.1v1Nc; GOD commanded you! For you have eaten food, and drunk water inthe place where He commanded younot to eat bread or drink water! -Your. body shall never go to the tomb of your fathers! After he had eaten food, andafter

he had drank, however, he saddled him the ass to go to where he had _ returned back ;—and~ he went,·—·-but a lion. met him in the road, and killed- him l and his was stretched on the road, and `e lass stood by one side, and the lion stood at theother side of the body, and men happened to come and see the body stretched on the road, and the lion standing at the side of the body, and they came and reported it in the dwelt. And the Preacher, who had turned him from the path, heard it It is the Man of GOD who disobeyed thedirection of the Evnmmvmc, so the Loan has given him to the lion, who has broken and killed him, according to the word which the EVER-Ltvmc spoke Then he addressed his sons, saying,

‘Saddle me the ass,?’ and they saddled it, and he went and found the body stretched on the road, with the ass and the lion standing at the side of the body. The lion hadnot eaten the body, nor injured the ass l So the Preacher lifted up the body

of the Man of GOD, and laid it on the ass, and brought it back, and came to the village of the old Preacher, to mourn and to bury it. So he laid the corpse in his own tomb, and mourned over it as if it were his brother. And after he had buried it, he said When I die you must bury mein the tomb where the Man of Gon is buried; at the side of his bones place my bones: for it was the EvER·L1V1NG commanded what he proclaimed as a Message of the Even-L1v1NG against the altar that is in Bethel, and against all the Temples of Columns which are in the townof 3¢r¤1mu refuses in ilzpmtt. Afterthis message jerabam did not,

however, returnifrom his evil way, but went and made priestsfrom the mass of the people for the Columns his hand delighted to make, and they ` became priests of the Columns. This matter was the sin of the House of jerabam, which destroyed and wasted it from the face of the earth. 26 28 33 (B.~c. 956.) jzralrautk Sm: gies. Some time after Abiah, the son of 14 jerabam was sick,_and jerabam said 2 Rise up now and dis- guise yourself, so that they may not know that you are the wife of jerabam, and go to Shiloh wherehkhiah the Reciter is,·-—he who announced tome to reign over this—people,—and take with you ten loaves ofvbread, and plum cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will inform you what will happen to the;lad. ]erabam’s wife accordingly did so,

and rose and went to Shiloh and came

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