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1 kings 13:26

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1 Kings 13:26

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”

— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard [thereof], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.

1 Kings 13:26 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Kings 13:26

Theological / Devotional

Who was disobedient. One hour the man of God was a man with a mission, the next a corpse by the wayside. Disobedience to God was the cause of his swift and inglorious death. The speedy penalty that overtook him was a further testimony to the king and people of Israel that obedience to the Lord’s commands is the only path of safety. In the rending of the altar, the withered arm of the king, and the swift death of the prophet who had gone contrary to the Lord’s command, the nation could have perceived the Lord’s displeasure, and His purpose to make entirely clear to Israel that the pathway of disobedience is the pathway of sorrow and death.

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