RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to
Yahrushalayim: see your elohim, O Yisrael, that brought
you up out of the land of Mitzrayim.
29 And he set one in Beth-El, and the other he put in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to
worship before one, or the other, even in Dan.
31 And he made a bayit of idols, and made Kohanim from
the am-ha-aretz, who were not from the sons of Lewi.
32 And Yahravam ordained a feast in the eighth month,
on the fifteenth day of the month, like the moed that is in
Yahudah, 922 and he offered upon the altar. He did the
same in Beth-El, sacrificing to the calves that he had
made: and he placed and appointed in Beth-El the
Kohanim of the idol temples, which he had made.
33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in
Beth-El the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the
month which he had devised from his own lev; and
ordained a moed to the children of Yisrael: and he offered
upon the altar, and burned incense.
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And, see, there came a man of Elohim out of
Yahudah by the word of vuvh to Beth-El: and Yahravam
stood by the altar to burn incense.
2 And he cried against the altar by the word of vuvh, and
said, O altar, altar, this says vuvh; See, a child shall be
born to Beit Dawid, Yoshiyahu by name; and upon you O
altar shall he offer the Kohanim of the high places that
burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burned
upon you.
3 And he gave an ot the same day, saying, This is the ot
that vuvh has spoken; See, the altar shall be torn, and the
ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
4 And it came to pass, when melech Yahravam heard the
saying of the man of Elohim, who had cried against the
altar in Beth-El, that he put out his hand from the altar,
saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put out
against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again
to himself.
5 The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from
the altar, according to the sign that the man of Elohim had
given by the word of vuvh.
6 And the melech answered and said to the man of
Elohim, Seek for me before the face of vuvh your Elohim,
and make tefillah for me, that my hand may be restored to
me again. And the man of Elohim besought vuvh, and the
melech's hand was restored to him again, and became as it
was before.
7 And the melech said to the man of Elohim, Come home
with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a
reward.
8 And the man of Elohim said to the melech, If you will
give me half your bayit, I will not go in with you, neither
will I eat lechem nor drink mayim in this place:
9 For so was it commanded me by the word of vuvh,
saying, Eat no lechem, nor drink mayim nor return by the
same way that you came.
10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way
that he came to Beth-El.
11 Now there dwelt an old navi in Beth-El; and his sons
came and told him all the works that the man of Elohim
had done that day in Beth-El: the words which he had
spoken to the melech, which they told also to their abba.
12 And their abba said to them, Which way did he go?
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For his sons had seen what way the man of Elohim went,
who came from Yahudah.
13 And he said to his sons, Saddle for me the donkey. So
they saddled the donkey for him: and he rode on it,
14 And went after the man of Elohim, and found him
sitting under an oak: and he said to him, Are you the man
of Elohim that came from Yahudah? And he said, I am.
15 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat
lechem.
16 And he said, I may not return with you, nor go in with
you: neither will I eat lechem nor drink mayim with you
in this place:
17 For it was said to me by the word of vuvh, You shall
eat no lechem nor drink mayim there, or turn again to go
by the derech that you came.
18 He said to him, I am a navi also as you are; and a
heavenly malach spoke to me by the word of vuvh,
saying, Bring him back with you into your bayit, that he
may eat lechem and drink mayim. But he lied to him.
19 So he went back with him, and did eat lechem in his
bayit, and drank mayim.
20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the shulchan, that
the word of vuvh truly came to the navi that brought him
back:
21 And he cried to the man of Elohim that came from
Yahudah, saying, This says vuvh, Forasmuch as you have
disobeyed the mouth of vuvh, and have not kept the
commandment which vuvh your Elohim commanded you,
22 But came back, and have eaten lechem and drunk
mayim in the place, of which vuvh did say to you, Eat no
lechem, and drink no mayim; your body shall not come to
the tomb of your ahvot.
23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten lechem, and
after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey, for the
navi whom he had brought back.
24 And when he had gone, a lion met him in the derech,
and killed him: and his body was cast in the derech, and
the donkey stood by it, the lion also stood by the body.
25 And, see, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the
derech, and the lion standing by the body: and they came
and told it in the city where the old navi dwelt.
26 And when the navi that brought him back from the
derech heard about it, he said, It is the man of Elohim,
who was disobedient to the word of vuvh. Therefore vuvh
has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and
slain him, according to the word of vuvh, which He spoke
to him.
27 And he spoke to his sons saying; Saddle for me the
donkey. And they saddled it.
28 And he went and found his body cast in the derech,
and the donkey and the lion standing by the body: the lion
had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.
29 And the navi took up the body of the man of Elohim,
and laid it upon the donkey, and brought it back: and the
old navi came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
30 And he laid his body in his own grave; and they
mourned over him, saying, Oy, oy, my brother!
31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he
spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me
in the tomb in which the man of Elohim is buried; lay my
bones beside his bones:
32 For the saying that he cried by the word of vuvh
against the altar in Beth-El, and against all the houses and