1 Kings 13:19
 1 Kings 13:19 
New International Version (©2011)
So the man of God returned with him and ate and drank in his house.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So they went back together, and the man of God ate and drank at the prophet's home.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and the man of God accompanied the old prophet back to his house, ate some food, and drank some water.

NET Bible (©2006)
So the prophet went back with him and ate and drank in his house.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The man of God went back with him and ate and drank in his home.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

American King James Version
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

American Standard Version
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And brought him back with him: so he ate bread and drank water in his house.

Darby Bible Translation
Then he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

English Revised Version
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

Webster's Bible Translation
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

World English Bible
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

Young's Literal Translation
And he turneth back with him, and eateth bread in his house, and drinketh water.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:11-22 The old prophet's conduct proves that he was not really a godly man. When the change took place under Jeroboam, he preferred his ease and interest to his religion. He took a very bad method to bring the good prophet back. It was all a lie. Believers are most in danger of being drawn from their duty by plausible pretences of holiness. We may wonder that the wicked prophet went unpunished, while the holy man of God was suddenly and severely punished. What shall we make of this? The judgments of God are beyond our power to fathom; and there is a judgment to come. Nothing can excuse any act of wilful disobedience. This shows what they must expect who hearken to the great deceiver. They that yield to him as a tempter, will be terrified by him as a tormentor. Those whom he now fawns upon, he will afterwards fly upon; and whom he draws into sin, he will try to drive to despair.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water [cf. ver. 10].


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So he went back with him,.... In which he sinned; for as he had most certainly the command of God not to eat and drink in that place, he ought to have had the countermand from the Lord, and not trusted to another person. There are some things indeed which may be said in his favour, and be an apology for him, as that this man was an ancient prophet of the Lord, as he appeared to him; and that though he was forbid to eat and drink with idolaters, yet he thought he might with a prophet of the Lord, and especially as he affirmed he had the direction of an angel of the Lord for it; nor could he conceive that the prophet had any interest to serve by it, but rather it might be chargeable and burdensome to him; and he might think the Lord, out of compassion on him, had countermanded his former orders, and the circumstances he was in might the more incline him to listen to these plausible pretences; but, after all, he ought to have taken no directions but from the Lord himself; in this he failed:

and did eat bread in his house, and drink water; contrary to the express command of God.


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The Prophet's Disobedience
18He said to him, I am a prophet also as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to him. 19So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. 20And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet that brought him back: …

1 Kings 13:18 The old prophet answered, "I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the LORD: 'Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.'" (But he was lying to him.)
1 Kings 13:20 While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the old prophet who had brought him back.