14And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; …
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. …
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)The man of God had honestly and resolutely refused the king’s invitation, though he promised him a reward; yet he was over-persuaded by an old prophet to come back with him, and dine in Beth-el, contrary to the command given him. Here we find how dearly his dinner cost him. Observe with wonder, I. The old prophet’s wickedness. I cannot but call him a false prophet and a bad man, it being much easi…
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