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Judgment from the Tempter's Lips
Commentators find it a "terrible feature" of this story that God delivers His judgment through the very prophet who lied. The same lips that lured the man of God into disobedience are now forced to pronounce his doom. This serves as a chilling reminder that God can use anyone, even a deceiver, to speak His truth, and that the voice of temptation can quickly become the voice of condemnation.
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1 Kings
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Charles Ellicott
On 1 Kings 13:20
19th Century
Bishop
The word of the Lord came. —It is, perhaps, the most terrible feature in the history that the Divine sentence is spoken—n…
John Gill
On 1 Kings 13:20
17th Century
Pastor
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table The old prophet, with his sons, and the man of God; the Arabic version adds…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Kings 13:11–22
17th Century
Minister
The old prophet's conduct proves that he was not really a godly man. When the change took place under Jeroboam, he preferred his ease and interest …