1 Kings 13 · Verse 19

1 Kings 13:19

So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
1 Kings 13:19, King James Version

1 Kings 13:19 in other translations

BSBbut the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
WEBSo he went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
ASVSo he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
YLTAnd he turneth back with him, and eateth bread in his house, and drinketh water.
DARBYThen he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
BBESo he went back with him, and had a meal in his house and a drink of water.
WebsterSo he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

What does 1 Kings 13:19 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 19 So he went back with him - He permitted himself to be imposed on; he might have thought, as he had accomplished every purpose for which God sent him, and had actually begun to return by another way, God, who had given him the charge, had authority to say, "As thy purpose was to obey every injunction, even to the letter, I now permit thee to go with this old prophet, and take some refreshment." Now God might as well have dispensed with this part of the injunction, as he did in the case of Abraham: Take thy son Isaac, thy only son, whom thou lovest - and offer him for a burnt-offering; but, when he saw his perfect readiness, he dispensed with the actual offering, and accepted a ram in his stead. Thus much may be said in vindication of the man of God: but if this be so, why should he be punished with death, for doing what he had reason and precedent to believe might be the will of God? I answer: He should not have taken a step back, till he had remission of the clause from the same authority which gave him the general message. He should have had it from the word of the Lord to himself, in both cases, as Abraham had; and not taken an apparent contradiction of what was before delivered unto him, from the mouth of a stranger, who only professed to have it from an angel, who pretended to speak unto him by the word of the Lord. In this, and in this alone, lay the sinfulness of the act of the man of God, who came out of Judah.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 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…

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1 Kings 13:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיָּ֣שָׁבvai.Ya.shovand he went backH7725
אִתּ֗וֹ'i.Towith himH854
וַיֹּ֥אכַלvai.Yo.khaland he ateH398
לֶ֛חֶםLe.chembreadH3899
בְּבֵית֖וֹbe.vei.Toin house hisH1004
וַיֵּ֥שְׁתְּvai.Ye.shetand he drankH8354
מָֽיִם\׃Ma.yimwaterH4325

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 13:19

  • Genesis 3:6

    And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

  • 1 Kings 13:9

    For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

  • Deuteronomy 18:20

    But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

  • Deuteronomy 13:3

    Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • Acts 4:19

    But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

  • Deuteronomy 13:5

    And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

  • 2 Peter 2:18-19

    For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

  • Deuteronomy 13:1

    If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
9; Ge 3:6; De 13:1,3,5; 18:20; Ac 4:19; 2Pe 2:18,19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Kings 13:18

    He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

  • 1 Kings 13:19

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

  • 1 Kings 13:20

    And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back:

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1 Kings 13:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Entonces volvió con él, y comió del pan en su casa, y bebió del agua.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il retourna avec lui, et mangea du pain dans sa maison, et but de l’eau.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da kehrte er mit ihm zurück, und aß Brot in seinem Hause und trank Wasser.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et reduxit secum: comedit ergo panem in domo ejus, et bibit aquam.