1 Kings 13:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
In context
14 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.
15 So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
16 But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
17 For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
18 Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
1 Kings 13:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
- KJV King James Version
- 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:
- WEB World English Bible
- He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And he saith, 'I am not able to turn back with thee, and to go in with thee, nor do I eat bread or drink with thee water in this place,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he said, I cannot return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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: