Holman Christian Standard Bible

1 Kings 13:16-21 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

16. But he answered, “I cannot go back with you, eat bread, or drink water with you in this place,

17. for a message came to me by the word of the Lord: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or go back by the way you came.’ ”

18. He said to him, “I am also a prophet like you. An angel spoke 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.’ ” The old prophet deceived him,

19. and the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

20. While they were sitting at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back,

21. and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you rebelled against the command of the Lord and did not keep the command that the Lord your God commanded you —