1Quando Jeroboão se aproximava do santuário pagão em Betel para queimar incenso ao bezerro, o ídolo em ouro, um servo de Deus veio de Judá, por ordem do SENHOR.2Dirigiu-se para este e, à ordem do SENHOR, clamou em alta voz: “Ó altar, o SENHOR manda dizer que uma criança chamada Josias nascerá da linhagem de David, o qual há de sacrificar sobre ti os sacerdotes dos santuários pagãos que aqui vêm queimar incenso! Ossos de seres humanos serão queimados sobre ti!”3Seguidamente, deu a seguinte prova de como a sua mensagem fora ditada pelo SENHOR: “Este altar partir-se-á em dois e a cinza que nele está espalhar-se-á pelo chão.”4O rei ficou furioso por o homem de Deus ter dito semelhantes coisas e gritou para os guardas: “Prendam esse homem!”, dirigindo o punho fechado contra ele. Imediatamente o seu braço ficou paralisado, sem o poder recolher.5Ao mesmo tempo, apareceu uma larga fenda no altar e as cinzas derramaram-se, tal como o homem de Deus tinha dito que haveria de acontecer. Esta foi a prova de que o SENHOR falara pela boca do profeta.6“Ó, peço-te que rogues ao SENHOR, teu Deus”, gritou o rei para o homem de Deus, “que me faça recuperar o meu braço!” Então ele orou ao SENHOR e o braço ficou normal.7O rei disse ao homem de Deus: “Vem comigo descansar e comer alguma coisa. Quero recompensar-te.”8No entanto, o homem de Deus respondeu-lhe: “Ainda que me desses metade do teu palácio, não entraria nele, nem sequer comeria ou beberia água nessa casa!9O SENHOR deu-me ordens estritas para não comer nem beber o que quer que fosse, enquanto aqui me encontrar, e para não regressar a Judá pelo mesmo caminho.”10E assim foi embora por outra estrada.11Vivia em Betel um velho profeta e o seu filho foi contar-lhe o que o homem de Deus, de Judá fizera e o que dissera ao rei.12“Por que caminho foi ele?” E informaram-no.13“Depressa, selem o meu jumento.” E logo correu atrás do homem de Deus, tendo-o encontrado sentado debaixo dum carvalho: “És tu o servo de Deus que veio de Judá?” Respondeu-lhe: “Sim, sou eu.” E pediu-lhe:15“Vem a minha casa e come comigo.”16“Não posso. Não me é permitido comer nem beber seja o que for em Betel, nem sequer água.17Foram as ordens estritas que o SENHOR me deu; mandou-me também que não regressasse pelo mesmo caminho.”18Contudo, o ancião insistiu: “Eu também sou profeta como tu e um anjo deu-me uma mensagem da parte do SENHOR. Devo levar-te para minha casa e dar-te de comer e beber.” No entanto, o velho profeta estava a mentir.19Assim, os dois voltaram para trás e o profeta comeu algum alimento e bebeu água em casa do ancião.20Estavam eles à mesa, quando veio uma mensagem do SENHOR ao profeta idoso.21Este exclamou para o homem de Deus de Judá: “O SENHOR manda dizer que por teres desobedecido às ordens claras que te tinham sido dadas,22tendo vindo até aqui para comer e beber água, num lugar que te tinha sido proibido, o teu corpo morto não será enterrado no túmulo dos teus pais.”23Terminada a refeição, o ancião selou o jumento do profeta.24Este partiu, mas durante a viagem apareceu um leão que o matou. O seu corpo ficou ali estendido no caminho com o jumento e o leão ao lado.25Alguns homem que passaram por ali viram o corpo no meio da estrada com o leão ao lado e foram contá-lo em Betel, onde vivia o velho profeta.26Quando este ouviu o que acontecera, exclamou: “É o homem de Deus que desobedeceu à ordens do SENHOR! O SENHOR cumpriu a sua palavra, fazendo com que o leão o matasse.”27Depois disse aos seus filhos: “Selem o meu jumento!” Assim fizeram.28Ele foi e achou o corpo do profeta estendido no caminho com o leão ainda ali ao lado, sem que tivesse comido o corpo ou atacado o jumento.29O profeta colocou o corpo sobre o jumento e levou-o para a cidade para lhe fazer o funeral e enterrá-lo.30Colocou o corpo no seu próprio sepulcro e chorando dizia: “Ah! Meu irmão!”31Depois disse ao filho: “Quando morrer, enterrem-me no sepulcro em que está o homem de Deus. Ponham os meus ossos ao lado dos seus.32Pois o SENHOR mandou que ele clamasse contra o altar de Betel e as suas maldições contra os santuários pagãos das cidades de Samaria certamente se cumprirão.”33Apesar dos avisos do profeta, Jeroboão não se converteu dos seus maus caminhos. Em vez disso, ordenou ainda mais sacerdotes, de entre o povo, para oferecerem sacrifícios aos ídolos nos santuários pagãos. Quem quisesse podia ser sacerdote.34Este foi um grande pecado e foi a causa da destruição do reino de Jeroboão e da morte de toda a sua família.
English Standard Version
A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam
1And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.2And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”3And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’”4And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.5The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.6And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it was before.7And the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”8And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place,9for so was it commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came.’”10So he went another way and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.
The Prophet’s Disobedience
11Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons* came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.12And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone.13And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him and he mounted it.14And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”15Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”16And he said, “I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place,17for it was said to me by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.’”18And he said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.19So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.20And as they sat at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back.21And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord and have not kept the command that the Lord your God commanded you,22but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”23And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.24And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.25And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.26And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the Lord; therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word that the Lord spoke to him.”27And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it.28And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey.29And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city* to mourn and to bury him.30And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”31And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.32For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.”33After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.34And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.
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