1And behold a Prophet of God came from Yehuda with the word of LORD JEHOVAH to Bayth Eil, and Yorbaam was standing on the altar to set incense. 2And he cried against the altar the word of LORD JEHOVAH and said: “Altar, altar, hear the word of LORD JEHOVAH! Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: ‘Behold, a son is born of the house of David. Yoshiah is his name, and he will sacrifice upon you the Priests of the idols who placed incense upon you, and the bones of a man he will burn upon you!’” 3And on that day, he gave a sign and said: “This is the sign that LORD JEHOVAH has sent me: behold, the altar will be broken, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.” 4And when the King heard the words of the Prophet of God who cried against the altar that is in Bayth Eil, the King reached his hand from the altar and said, “Seize him!”, and his hand that he reached toward him withered up, and he was unable to return it to himself. 5And the altar was broken and the ashes that were upon it were poured out, according to the sign that the Prophet of God gave in the word of LORD JEHOVAH. 6And the King answered and said to the Prophet of God: “Pray for me before LORD JEHOVAH your God, and request for me that my hand will be restored to me!” And the Prophet of God prayed before LORD JEHOVAH, and the hand of the King was restored to him, and it was like it was before. 7And the King said to the Prophet of God: “Come with me to the house and eat, and I shall give you a gift.” 8And the Prophet of God said to him: “If you give to me half of your house, I shall not enter the house with you, neither shall I eat bread nor shall I drink water in the place. 9Because thus LORD JEHOVAH commanded me in the word, and he said to me: ‘You shall not eat bread and you shall not drink water, and you shall not return on the road by which you came.’” 10And he went on himself on another road, and he did not return on the road by which he came to Bayth Eil.

11One old Prophet was dwelling in Bayth Eil and his sons came and they related to him all the works that the Prophet of God did on that day in Bayth Eil, and his sons related to their father the word that he spoke to the King. 12And their father said to them: “By what road did he go?” And his sons told him the road by which the Prophet of God went who came from Yehuda. 13And he said to his sons: “Mount me on the donkey”, and they mounted him on the donkey and he rode upon him. 14And he went on after the prophet of God and he found him while sitting under an oak and said to him: “Are you the Prophet of God who came from Yehuda?” He said to him, “I am.” 15He said to him, “Come with me to the house and eat bread.” 16And he said to him: “I cannot return with you and come to your house, and I shall not eat bread with you and I shall not drink water in this place.” 17Because thus it was told me by the word of LORD JEHOVAH:“ you shall not eat bread there and you shall not drink water there, neither shall you return on the road by which you came.” 18And he said to him: “I also am a Prophet like you, and an Angel said to me in the word of LORD JEHOVAH: ‘Bring him with you to the house. He will eat bread and drink water”, and he lied to him. 19And he returned with him and he ate bread in his house and he drank water.

20And as they were sitting at the table, the word of LORD JEHOVAH came upon the Prophet who brought him. 21And he cried to the Prophet of God who came from Yehuda, and thus he said to him: “Thus says LORD JEHOVAH, because you have provoked the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH and you have not kept the commandment that LORD JEHOVAH your God commanded you. 22And you have returned and you ate bread and you drank water in the place of which I said to you,’You shall not eat bread and you shall not drink water’, because of this, your corpse shall not enter the tomb of your fathers.” 23And after they ate bread and after they drank water, they saddled the donkey of the Prophet of God for him. 24And he returned and he went on, and a lion in the way found him and killed him, and his corpse was thrown into the road, and the male donkey stood by his side, and the lion stood by the side of the corpse. 25And, behold, men passed by and they saw the corpse which had been thrown onto the road, and the male donkey standing by its side and the lion standing by the side of the corpse, and they came and they told it in the city where the old Prophet lived.

26And the Prophet who brought him from the road heard and said: “He is the Prophet of God! Because he changed the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH, LORD JEHOVAH gave him to the lion and it tore him apart and killed him, according to the word of LORD JEHOVAH which he spoke to him.” 27And he said to his sons: “Saddle the donkey for me!”, and they saddled it. 28And he went and he found the corpse lying in the road, and the male donkey and the lion standing by the side of the corpse. The lion did not eat the corpse and did not harm the donkey. 29And the Prophet picked up the corpse of the Prophet of God and he placed it on the donkey and brought it to the city where that old Prophet had dwelt, to mourn over him and to bury him. 30And he laid his corpse in a tomb, and he mourned over him, and said: “Woe, my brother! Woe, my brother!” 31And after he buried him, he said to his sons: “When I die, bury me in the tomb in which the Prophet of God is buried, and lay my bones beside his bones. 32Because the word that he cried in the word of LORD JEHOVAH against the altar of Bayth Eil and against all the houses of idols of the fort cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.”

33And after this matter, Yorbaam did not return from his evil way, and he returned again and made some of the people Priests of the idols. Whoever wanted to be Priest offered an offering and he was Priest of burnt offerings. 34And this matter was sin to the house of Yorbaam, to uproot and to destroy from the face of the Earth.