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14 and he rode off after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. |You're the man of God who came from Judah, aren't you?| the old prophet asked him. |I am,| he replied. 15 |Come home with me and have a meal,| he told him. 16 But he replied, |I can't go back with you to your home, be in your company, or even eat food or drink water with you in this place, 17 because I've been given a command in the form of this message from the LORD: 'You are to eat no food, drink no water, and do not return to Judah by traveling the way by which you go there.'| 18 |I'm a prophet like you,| the old man replied, |and an angel spoke to me and delivered this message from the LORD: 'Bring him back with you to your house and give him food and water.'| But he was lying, 1 Kings 13:14-18, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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