1 Kings 13:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.

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  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.
  • 2 Sam 12:10 : 10 So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
  • 2 Sam 12:14 : 14 But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
  • Ps 119:120 : 120 My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.
  • Prov 11:31 : 31 If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.
  • 1 Cor 11:30 : 30 For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect: 29 For our God is an all-burning fire.
  • 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 20:35-37
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    87%

    35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not.

    36 Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.

    37 Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him.

  • 1 Kgs 13:20-25
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    85%

    20 But while they were seated at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had taken him back;

    21 And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,

    22 But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.

    23 Now after the meal he made ready the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had taken back.

    24 And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.

    25 And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.

  • 1 Kgs 13:27-29
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    80%

    27 And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.

    28 And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.

    29 Then the prophet took up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass and took it back; and he came to the town to put the body to rest with weeping.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25-26
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    74%

    25 Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.

    26 So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way.

  • 1 Kgs 13:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10 So he went another way, and not by the way he came to Beth-el.

    11 Now there was an old prophet living in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and gave him word of all the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and they gave their father an account of the words he had said to the king.

    12 Then their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God who came from Judah had gone.

  • Nah 2:11-13
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    72%

    11 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

    13 Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

  • Ezek 19:5-6
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    72%

    5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

    6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

  • 1 Kgs 20:42
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    42 And he said to him, These are the words of the Lord: Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people.

  • Jer 5:6
    71%

    6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

  • 1 Kgs 14:11
    71%

    11 Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and those on whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air; for the Lord has said it.

  • 2 Kgs 7:17
    71%

    17 And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.

  • Amos 3:8
    71%

    8 The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

  • Ezek 19:3
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    3 And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    70%

    7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

    8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

  • Prov 26:13
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    13 The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

  • 1 Kgs 13:14
    69%

    14 And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

  • Job 4:11
    69%

    11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

  • Jer 2:30
    69%

    30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

  • 2 Chr 34:26
    69%

    26 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have given ear to my words,

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
    69%

    20 And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.

  • 2 Chr 25:15-16
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    69%

    15 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you gone after the gods of the people who have not given their people salvation from your hands?

    16 But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.

  • Prov 22:13
    69%

    13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

  • 2 Kgs 9:36
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    36 So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;

  • 1 Kgs 13:17-18
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    69%

    17 For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.

    18 Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.

  • 2 Kgs 1:6-7
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    6 And they said to him, On our way we had a meeting with a man who said, Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The Lord says, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For this reason, you will not come down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

    7 And he said to them, What sort of a man was it who came and said these words to you?

  • Hos 5:14
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    14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

  • 2 Kgs 6:33
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    33 While he was still talking to them, the king came down and said, This evil is from the Lord; why am I to go on waiting any longer for the Lord?

  • 2 Kgs 1:16-17
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    16 And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

    17 So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.

  • Amos 5:19
    68%

    19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • 1 Kgs 13:5
    68%

    5 And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.