16He said, |I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.


In Context

13 He said to his sons, |Saddle the donkey for me.| So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.

14 He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, |Are you the man of God who came from Judah?| He said, |I am.|

15 Then he said to him, |Come home with me, and eat bread.|

16 He said, |I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.

17 For it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, 'You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.'|

18 He said to him, |I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'| He lied to him.

1 Kings 13:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:16The man of God said, "I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:16And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:16But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I eat bread, nor drink water in this place :

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:16And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:16And he said, I cannot return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:16And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:16And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:16And he saith, 'I am not able to turn back with thee, and to go in with thee, nor do I eat bread or drink with thee water in this place,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:16And he said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place: