1 Kings 13:16
But he replied,“I can’t go back with you. I am not allowed to eat food or to drink water with you in this place.
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Kgs 13:8-9 : 8 But the prophet said to the king,“Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you. I am not allowed to eat food or drink water in this place. 9 For this is how I was commanded in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”
- Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him,“Go away, Satan! For it is written:‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
- Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned and said to Peter,“Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”
- Gen 3:1-3 : 1 The Temptation and the Fall Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,“Is it really true that God said,‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard; 3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said,‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”
- Num 22:13 : 13 So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak,“Go to your land, for the LORD has refused to permit me to go with you.”
- Num 22:19 : 19 Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the LORD might say to me.”
Similar Verses (AI)
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- 1 Kgs 13:17-237 verses87%
17 For an order came to me in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water there. And do not return by the way you came.’”
18 Then the old prophet said,“I too am a prophet like you. And an angel has told me in a message from the LORD,‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat food and drink water.’” But he had lied to him.
19 So the prophet went back with him. He ate food in his house and he drank water.
20 While they were sitting at the table, the LORD’s message came to the old prophet who had brought him back.
21 So he cried out to the prophet who had come from Judah,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You have rebelled against the LORD’s instruction and have not obeyed the command the LORD your God gave you.
22 You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you,“Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”
23 So this is what happened after he had eaten food and drunk water. The old prophet saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.
- 1 Kgs 13:7-104 verses83%
7 The king then said to the prophet,“Come home with me and have something to eat, so that I may give you a gift.”
8 But the prophet said to the king,“Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you. I am not allowed to eat food or drink water in this place.
9 For this is how I was commanded in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”
10 So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.
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15 He then said to him,“Come home with me and eat something.”
- Num 10:30-312 verses74%
30 But Hobab said to him,“I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”
31 Moses said,“Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.
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23 But he refused, saying,“I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged him to eat, so he gave in. He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.
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8 “‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.
- Deut 2:27-282 verses71%
27 “Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.
28 Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot,
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18 Do not leave this place until I come back with a gift and present it to you.” The LORD said,“I will stay here until you come back.”
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18 The Levite said to him,“We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.
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15 And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.
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16 But Elisha replied,“As certainly as the LORD lives(whom I serve), I will take nothing from you.” Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.
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3 One of them said,“Please come along with your servants.” He replied,“All right, I’ll come.”
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33 When food was served, he said,“I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.”“Tell us,” Laban said.
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26 Samuel said to Saul,“I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the LORD’s orders, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel!”
- Jer 42:13-142 verses70%
13 “You must not disobey the LORD your God by saying,‘We will not stay in this land.’
14 You must not say,‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, or starve for lack of food.’
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16 The LORD’s angel said to Manoah,“If I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the LORD, you should offer it.”(He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the LORD’s angel.)
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3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”
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39 But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’
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9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
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6 You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!
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13 So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak,“Go to your land, for the LORD has refused to permit me to go with you.”
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3 He said,“I will not enter my own home, or get into my bed.
- Num 20:17-182 verses69%
17 Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”
18 But Edom said to him,“You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword.”
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11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”
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7 At that time the brother will shout,‘I am no doctor, I have no food or coat in my house; don’t make me a leader of the people!’”
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20 It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men with you. May genuine loyal love protect you!”
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2 Elijah told Elisha,“Stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
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9 So he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad,“Say this to my master, the king,‘I will give you everything you demanded at first from your servant, but I am unable to agree to this latest demand.’” So the messengers went back and gave their report.
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42 But the LORD told me:“Tell them this:‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’”
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4 Elijah said to him,“Elisha, stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he replied,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
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16 However, if the servant says to you,“I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,
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20 The old man said,“Everything is just fine! I will take care of all your needs. But don’t spend the night in the town square.”
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10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.
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29 He said,‘Permit me to go, for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
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6 Elijah said to him,“Stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.
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12 But his master said to him,“We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah.”
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7 But a prophet visited him and said:“O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites.