Study it in the app“Now 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.”
Now an oldוְ זָקֵןprophetנָבִיא אֶחָדlivedיֹשֵׁבin Bethel;בְּבֵית אֵלand his sonוַ בְנוֹcameיָּבוֹאand toldוַיְסַפֶּרhimלוֹallכָּלthe deedsהַמַּעֲשֶׂהthatאֲשֶׁרthe manאִישׁof Elohimהָאֱלֹהִיםhad doneעָשָׂהthat dayהַיּוֹםin Bethel;בְּבֵית אֵלthe wordsהַדְּבָרִיםthatאֲשֶׁרhe had spokenדִּבֶּרtoאֶלthe king,הַמֶּלֶךְthey told themוַיְסַפְּרוּםto their father.לַאֲבִיהֶם
old
A person of many years.
Where else “zaken” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “navi” appearsone
The number one; just one and no more.
Where else “echad” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshev” appearsBethel
See it on the mapWhere else “vet” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ven” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “yavo” appearsrecount
To relate, declare: the heavens proclaim the glory of El.
Where else “yesaper” appearswork
What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
Where else “maase” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asa” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devarim” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “diber” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearsThe Hebrew begins in the singular (“his son came and told him”) and goes on in the plural (“they told them”); in the following verses it speaks of “his sons.” The translation leaves it as it is.
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).
10So he went by another way and did not return by the way that he had come by it to Bethel.
11 · This verse (above)
12Their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons had seen the way that the man of Elohim who had come from Judah had gone.
