Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Eat no bread, nor drink water - The reason of the command is evident. The man of God was not to accept the hospitality of any dweller at Bethel, in order to show in a marked way, which men generally could appreciate, God' s abhorrence of the system which Jeroboam had "devised of his own heart."
Nor turn again by the same way that thou camest - This command seems to have been given simply to test the obedience of the prophet by laying him under a positive as well as a moral obligation.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 13:9:
2 Kings 2:23
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