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The old prophet finds the Judean prophet and invites him to eat; the younger man initially refuses.
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1 Kings 13:14-17

Under the terebinth

The Man of God at Bethel · 1 Kings 13

Story guide: The old prophet approaches the man of God resting beneath the terebinth, offering bread, while the man of God refuses.

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14The old prophet went after the man of God and found him sitting under the terebinth tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” the man of God replied.

15Then the old prophet said to him, “Come home with me and have a meal.”

16But the man of God replied, “I cannot return with you or go with you, and I will not eat food or drink water with you in this place.”

17For this was Yahweh’s word to me: ‘Do not eat food or drink water there, and do not return by the road you came on.’”

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