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1 Kings 13:14

Judah

12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

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BSB
and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
KJV
And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
WEB
He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”
ASV
And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
DARBY
and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a terebinth; and he said to him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
BLB
and he went after the man of God and found him sitting under the oak. And he said to him, “[Are] you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I [am].”
ÅB
og red avsted etter den Guds mann. Han fant ham sittende under en terebinte, og han sa til ham: Er du den Guds mann som er kommet fra Juda? Han svarte: Ja, det er jeg.
OTB
Og han forfulgte Guds mann, og fant ham sittende under en eik. Og han sa til ham, “Er du Guds mann som kom fra Juda?” Og han svarte, “Jeg er.”
B1930
og red avsted efter den Guds mann. Han fant ham sittende under en terebinte, og han sa til ham: Er du den Guds mann som er kommet fra Juda? Han svarte: Ja, det er jeg.

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  • 1 Kings 19:4

    But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

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  • 1 Corinthians 4:11–12

    Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

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  • John 4:6

    Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

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  • John 4:34

    Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

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  • Philippians 4:12–13

    I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

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  • 2 Corinthians 11:27

    In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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