1 Kings 13:10
8 But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
9 For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
11 Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
12 “Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
- KJV
- So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.
- WEB
- So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.
- ASV
- So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.
- DARBY
- So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he had come to Bethel.
- BLB
- And he went another way and did not return by the way that he had come in to Bethel.
- ÅB
- Så tok han avsted en annen vei og vendte ikke tilbake den vei han var kommet til Betel.
- OTB
- Så tok han en annen vei og vendte ikke tilbake den veien han hadde kommet til Betel.
- B1930
- Så tok han avsted en annen vei og vendte ikke tilbake den vei han var kommet til Betel.