SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:14
Y yendo tras el varón de Dios, le halló que estaba sentado debajo de un alcornoque; y le dijo: ¿Eres tú el varón de Dios que viniste de Judá? Y él dijo: Yo soy .
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 13:14
Verse 14. And went after the man of God] I can hardly think that this was with any evil design. His sons had given him such an account of the prediction, the power, and influence of this prophet, that he wished to have a particular acquaintance with him, in order that he might get farther information relative to the solemn import of the prophecy which he had denounced against the idolatry at Beth-el. This good man could not have been an object of the old prophet's malevolence.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak , etc.] To shelter him from the heat, and being faint, hungry, and thirsty; so the ancients of old made use of oaks for a covering, before houses were invented f329 ; thus Abraham pitched his tent in the plain, or under the oak, of Mamre, ( Genesis 13:18) and he said unto him, art thou the man of God that camest from Judah ? which he might guess at from his habit, and from the description his sons had given of him: and he said, I am ; owned himself to be the person he inquired after.
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
וילך 1980 אחרי 310 אישׁ 376 האלהים 430 וימצאהו 4672 ישׁב 3427 תחת 8478 האלה 424 ויאמר 559 אליו 413 האתה 859 אישׁ 376 האלהים 430 אשׁר 834 באת 935 מיהודה 3063 ויאמר 559 אני׃ 589
