Tree Of Life Version

1 Kings 13:14-21 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

14. Then he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he said.

15. “Come home with me,” he said to him, “and eat bread!”

16. But he said: “I cannot return with you nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

17. For it was said to me by the word of Adonai: You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor should you return back by the way by which you came.”

18. So he said to him: “I also am a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me with the word of Adonai saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” (He lied to him.)

19. So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.

20. Now while they were sitting at the table, the word of Adonai came to the prophet who had brought him back,

21. and he cried to the man of God that came from Judah saying, “Thus says Adonai: Because you rebelled against the word of Adonai, and did not keep the commandment which Adonai your God commanded you,