King James Version
1 Kings 13:12 in the King James Version says “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 J...” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
1 Kings 13:12 · KJV
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.
And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
And 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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“said”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“And their father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“unto them What way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“had seen”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“he For his sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“unto them What 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
“the man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“of God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“from Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
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