13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 23 When his sons came home, they told their father 24 everything the prophet 25 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 26 13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him 27 the road the prophet 28 from Judah had taken. 13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it 13:14 and took off after the prophet, 29 whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet 30 from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.” 13:15 He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.” 13:16 But he replied, “I can’t go back with you 31 or eat and drink 32 with you in this place. 13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 33 ‘Do not eat or drink 34 there; do not go back the way you came.’” 13:18 The old prophet then said, 35 “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, 36 ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” 37 But he was lying to him. 38 13:19 So the prophet went back with him and ate and drank in his house. 39
13:20 While they were sitting at the table, the Lord spoke through the old prophet 40 13:21 and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You 41 have rebelled against the Lord 42 and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you. 13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” 43 Therefore 44 your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” 45
13:23 When the prophet from Judah finished his meal, 46 the old prophet saddled his visitor’s donkey for him. 47 13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. 48 His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. 49 13:25 Some men came by 50 and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. 51 They went and reported what they had seen 52 in the city where the old prophet lived. 13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, 53 he said, “It is the prophet 54 who rebelled against the Lord. 55 The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up 56 and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” 57 13:27 He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey,” and they did so. 58 13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; 59 the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. 13:29 The old prophet 60 picked up the corpse of the prophet, 61 put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him. 13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they 62 mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!” 13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet 63 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, 13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 64 against the altar in Bethel 65 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 66 will certainly be fulfilled.”
13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 67 he continued to appoint common people 68 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 69 13:34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty 70 to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.