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So he wentוַיֵּלֶךְby anotherבְּ אַחֵרwayדֶרֶךְand did notוְלֹאreturnשָׁבby the wayבַּדֶּרֶךְthatאֲשֶׁרhe had comeבָּאby itבָהּtoאֶלBethel.בֵּית אֵל
1 Kings 13:10
Study it in the app“So he went by another way and did not return by the way that he had come by it to Bethel.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 13:10, word by word
- So he wentיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- by anotherאַחֵרacher
other
Other, another; next.
Where else “acher” appears- wayדֶרֶךְderech
road
The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.
Where else “derech” appears- returnשָׁבshav
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “shav” appears- he had comeבָּאba
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “ba” appears- Bethelבֵּיתbet
Bethel
See it on the mapWhere else “bet” appears
Places in this verse
Bethel ?
Today: possibly Beitin, West Bank
A city in the hills about 11 miles (17 km) north of Jerusalem; the location is approximate.
There Jacob dreamed of a ladder reaching to heaven and named the place Bethel, "house of God" (Gen 28:19). Jeroboam set up a golden calf there (1 Kgs 12:29).
The context
9for so I was commanded by the word of YHWH, saying, ‘You shall not eat bread and you shall not drink water, and you shall not return by the way that you went.’”
10 · This verse (above)
11Now an old prophet lived in Bethel; and his son came and told him all the deeds that the man of Elohim had done that day in Bethel; the words that he had spoken to the king, they told them to their father.