1 Kings 13
In the last chapter, Jeroboam king of Israel built idols and alters to stop his people from obeying the requirements of the law of Moses, which would involve them visiting the region of Israel that was not under his command or control.
God sent a man with a message to the alter where Jeroboam was making sacrifices, one day a descendant of David called Josiah will burn the priests who sacrificed animals on this alter - he also predicted that the alter would split and ashes would pour out.
Jeroboam was not impressed and commanded that the man be arrested, but the hand he used to point him out shrivelled and he could not pull it back, at the same time the alter split.
Jeroboam asked the man of God to pray for him and restore his hand. With his hand restored, Jeroboam asked to spend time and a meal with the man of God, but he declined saying he had instruction from God to eat and drink nothing in Israel and not to go back by the road he arrived on.
Word of this reached the ears of an old prophet who lived locally and he sent his sons out to find the man of God, he then met with him and lying told him that God had sent word that he should go for dinner with this local prophet. This seems particularly underhanded and rather unfair.
While they were sitting at the table, the word of God came to the old prophet saying that God had commanded his man to not eat and drink anything and since he had defied God he would not be buried in his home town.
After the meal, they parted company with the man of God departing on his donkey and was attacked and killed on the road by a lion - which did not eat the man or attack the donkey.
A passer by reported to the prophet what he had seen and he went out and recovered the body and buried him locally with instruction that when he die, the old prophet be buried with the man of God
Even after this Jeroboam continued to appoint anybody at priests and to ignore the law of Moses.
The Bible records that his line came to an end due to the sins of Jeroboam.
In the last chapter, Jeroboam king of Israel built idols and alters to stop his people from obeying the requirements of the law of Moses, which would involve them visiting the region of Israel that was not under his command or control.
God sent a man with a message to the alter where Jeroboam was making sacrifices, one day a descendant of David called Josiah will burn the priests who sacrificed animals on this alter - he also predicted that the alter would split and ashes would pour out.
Jeroboam was not impressed and commanded that the man be arrested, but the hand he used to point him out shrivelled and he could not pull it back, at the same time the alter split.
Jeroboam asked the man of God to pray for him and restore his hand. With his hand restored, Jeroboam asked to spend time and a meal with the man of God, but he declined saying he had instruction from God to eat and drink nothing in Israel and not to go back by the road he arrived on.
Word of this reached the ears of an old prophet who lived locally and he sent his sons out to find the man of God, he then met with him and lying told him that God had sent word that he should go for dinner with this local prophet. This seems particularly underhanded and rather unfair.
While they were sitting at the table, the word of God came to the old prophet saying that God had commanded his man to not eat and drink anything and since he had defied God he would not be buried in his home town.
After the meal, they parted company with the man of God departing on his donkey and was attacked and killed on the road by a lion - which did not eat the man or attack the donkey.
A passer by reported to the prophet what he had seen and he went out and recovered the body and buried him locally with instruction that when he die, the old prophet be buried with the man of God
Even after this Jeroboam continued to appoint anybody at priests and to ignore the law of Moses.
The Bible records that his line came to an end due to the sins of Jeroboam.
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