SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:20
Y aconteció que, estando ellos a la mesa, vino palabra del SEŃOR al profeta que le había hecho volver;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 13:20
Verse 20. The word of the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back] "A great clamour," says Dr. Kennicott, "has been raised against this part of the history, on account of God's denouncing sentence on the true prophet by the mouth of the false prophet: but if we examine with attention the original words here, they will be found to signify either he who brought him back; or, whom he had brought back; for the very same words, wbyŤh rŤa asher heshibo, occur again in ver. 23, where they are now translated, whom he had brought back; and where they cannot be translated otherwise. This being the case, we are at liberty to consider the word of the Lord as delivered to the true prophet thus brought back; and then the sentence is pronounced by GOD himself, calling to him out of heaven, as in Gen. xxii. 11. And that this doom was thus pronounced by God, not by the false prophet, we are assured in ver. x16: 'The Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, according to the word of the Lord which HE spake unto him.' Josephus expressly asserts that the sentence was declared by God to the true prophet." The Arabic asserts the same.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. And it came to pass, as they sat at the table , etc.] The old prophet, with his sons, and the man of God; the Arabic version adds, “and did eat”, there being a pause in the Hebrew text, as if something was wanting, and to be understood and supplied: that the word of the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back ; that is, to the old prophet, who was the means of bringing back the man of God; the word did not come to him who had transgressed the command of the Lord, but to him who was the occasion of it; though Abarbinel is of opinion that the word came to the latter, and so some versions, both ancient and modern, render the clause, “to the prophet whom he had brought back” and which is countenanced by what is said, ( 1 Kings 13:26), according to the word of the Lord which he spoke unto him : but the former sense best agrees with what follows.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-22 - 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 an interest to his religion. He took a very bad method to bring the goo prophet back. It was all a lie. Believers are most in danger of being drawn from their duty by plausible pretences of holiness. We may wonde that the wicked prophet went unpunished, while the holy man of God wa suddenly and severely punished. What shall we make of this? The judgments of God are beyond our power to fathom; and there is judgment to come. Nothing can excuse any act of wilful disobedience This shows what they must expect who hearken to the great deceiver They that yield to him as a tempter, will be terrified by him as tormentor. Those whom he now fawns upon, he will afterwards fly upon and whom he draws into sin, he will try to drive to despair.
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 הם 1992 ישׁבים 3427 אל 413 השׁלחן 7979 ויהי 1961 דבר 1697 יהוה 3068 אל 413 הנביא 5030 אשׁר 834 השׁיבו׃ 7725
