King James Version
1 Kings 13:10 in the King James Version says “So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.”
1 Kings 13:10 · KJV
And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.
Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“not by the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“and returned”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“not by the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
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