13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. ²⁶  When his sons came home, they told their father ²⁷  everything the prophet ²⁸  had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. ²⁹  13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him ³⁰  the road the prophet ³¹  from Judah had taken. 13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it 13:14 and took off after the prophet, ³²  whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet ³³  from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.” 13:15 He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.” 13:16 But he replied, “I can’t go back with you ³⁴  or eat and drink ³⁵  with you in this place. 13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ³⁶  ‘Do not eat or drink ³⁷  there; do not go back the way you came.’” 13:18 The old prophet then said, ³⁸  “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, ³⁹  ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” ⁴⁰  But he was lying to him. ⁴¹  13:19 So the prophet went back with him and ate and drank in his house. ⁴² 

13:20 While they were sitting at the table, the Lord spoke through the old prophet ⁴³  13:21 and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You ⁴⁴  have rebelled against the Lord ⁴⁵  and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you. 13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” ⁴⁶  Therefore ⁴⁷  your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” ⁴⁸ 

13:23 When the prophet from Judah finished his meal, ⁴⁹  the old prophet saddled his visitor’s donkey for him. ⁵⁰  13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. ⁵¹  His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. ⁵²  13:25 Some men came by ⁵³  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ⁵⁴  They went and reported what they had seen ⁵⁵  in the city where the old prophet lived. 13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, ⁵⁶  he said, “It is the prophet ⁵⁷  who rebelled against the Lord. ⁵⁸  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up ⁵⁹  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” ⁶⁰  13:27 He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey,” and they did so. ⁶¹  13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ⁶²  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. 13:29 The old prophet ⁶³  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ⁶⁴  put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him. 13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they ⁶⁵  mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!” 13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet ⁶⁶  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones, 13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ⁶⁷  against the altar in Bethel ⁶⁸  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ⁶⁹  will certainly be fulfilled.”

13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; ⁷⁰  he continued to appoint common people ⁷¹  as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. ⁷²  13:34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty ⁷³  to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

14:1 At that time ¹  Amraphel king of Shinar, ²  Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations ³  14:2 went to war ⁴  against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). ⁵  14:3 These last five kings ⁶  joined forces ⁷  in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea). ⁸  14:4 For twelve years ⁹  they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year ¹⁰  they rebelled. ¹¹  14:5 In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated ¹²  the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 14:6 and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert. ¹³  14:7 Then they attacked En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh) again, ¹⁴  and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.

14:8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and prepared for battle. In the Valley of Siddim they met ¹⁵  14:9 Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations, ¹⁶  Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar. Four kings fought against ¹⁷  five. 14:10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. ¹⁸  When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, ¹⁹  but some survivors ²⁰  fled to the hills. ²¹  14:11 The four victorious kings ²²  took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left. 14:12 They also took Abram’s nephew ²³  Lot and his possessions when ²⁴  they left, for Lot ²⁵  was living in Sodom. ²⁶ 

14:13 A fugitive ²⁷  came and told Abram the Hebrew. ²⁸  Now Abram was living by the oaks ²⁹  of Mamre the Amorite, the brother ³⁰  of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty ³¹  with Abram.) ³²  14:14 When Abram heard that his nephew ³³  had been taken captive, he mobilized ³⁴  his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders ³⁵  as far as Dan. ³⁶  14:15 Then, during the night, ³⁷  Abram ³⁸  divided his forces ³⁹  against them and defeated them. He chased them as far as Hobah, which is north ⁴⁰  of Damascus. 14:16 He retrieved all the stolen property. ⁴¹  He also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the rest of ⁴²  the people.

14:17 After Abram ⁴³  returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram ⁴⁴  in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King’s Valley). ⁴⁵  14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem ⁴⁶  brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.) ⁴⁷  14:19 He blessed Abram, saying,

“Blessed be Abram by ⁴⁸  the Most High God,

Creator ⁴⁹  of heaven and earth. ⁵⁰ 

14:20 Worthy of praise is ⁵¹  the Most High God,

who delivered ⁵²  your enemies into your hand.”

Abram gave Melchizedek ⁵³  a tenth of everything.