Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Reading
1 Kings 13:1—14:31
1And
behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to
Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings. 2And
the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O
altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to
the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the
priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones
shall be burned on you.’” 3And he gave a sign the same
day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold,
the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be
poured out.’” 4And when the king heard the saying of
the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam
stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And
his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he
could not draw it back to himself. 5The altar also was
torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the
sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord. 6And
the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord
your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And
the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored
to him and became as it was before. 7And the king said to
the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I
will give you a reward.” 8And the man of God said to the
king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you.
And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place, 9for
so was it commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘You shall
neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you
came.’” 10So he went another way and did not return by
the way that he came to Bethel.
11Now
an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all
that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to
their father the words that he had spoken to the king. 12And
their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons
showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
13And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.”
So they saddled the donkey for him and he mounted it. 14And
he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And
he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And
he said, “I am.” 15Then he said to him, “Come home
with me and eat bread.” 16And he said, “I may not
return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor
drink water with you in this place, 17for it was said to
me by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink
water there, nor return by the way that you came.’” 18And
he said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke
to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you
into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he
lied to him. 19So he went back with him and ate bread in
his house and drank water.
20And
as they sat at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet
who had brought him back. 21And he cried to the man of God
who came from Judah, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have
disobeyed the word of the Lord and have not kept the command that the
Lord your God commanded you, 22but have come back and have
eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you,
“Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to
the tomb of your fathers.’” 23And after he had eaten
bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had
brought back. 24And as he went away a lion met him on the
road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the
donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body. 25And
behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the
lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city
where the old prophet lived.
26And
when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it,
he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the Lord;
therefore the Lord has given him to the lion, which has torn him and
killed him, according to the word that the Lord spoke to him.”
27And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.”
And they saddled it. 28And he went and found his body
thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the
body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey. 29And
the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the
donkey and brought it back to the city to mourn and to bury him.
30And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned
over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!” 31And after he
had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the
grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his
bones. 32For the saying that he called out by the word of
the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of
the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come
to pass.”
33After
this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests
for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would,
he ordained to be priests of the high places. 34And this
thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to
destroy it from the face of the earth.
1At
that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2And
Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it
not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh.
Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be
king over this people. 3Take with you ten loaves, some
cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall
happen to the child.”
4Jeroboam’s
wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of
Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of
his age. 5And the Lord said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife
of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is
sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.”
When
she came, she pretended to be another woman. 6But when
Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he
said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another?
For I am charged with unbearable news for you. 7Go, tell
Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: “Because I
exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people
Israel 8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David
and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David,
who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing
only that which was right in my eyes, 9but you have done
evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for
yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have
cast me behind your back, 10therefore behold, I will bring
harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every
male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of
Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone. 11Anyone
belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and
anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall
eat, for the Lord has spoken it.”’ 12Arise therefore,
go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
13And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he
only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is
found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house
of Jeroboam. 14Moreover, the Lord will raise up for
himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam
today. And henceforth, 15the Lord will strike Israel as a
reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land
that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates,
because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
16And he will give Israel up because of the sins of
Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.”
17Then
Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she
came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18And
all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of
the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19Now
the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned,
behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings
of Israel. 20And the time that Jeroboam reigned was
twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son
reigned in his place.
21Now
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the
Ammonite. 22And Judah did what was evil in the sight of
the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they
committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23For
they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on
every high hill and under every green tree, 24and there
were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to
all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before
the people of Israel.
25In
the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem. 26He took away the treasures of the
house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house. He took
away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that
Solomon had made, 27and King Rehoboam made in their place
shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of
the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house. 28And
as often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard
carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.
29Now
the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not
written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 30And
there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 31And
Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And
Abijam his son reigned in his place.
Collect
Almighty
and everlasting God, direct, sanctify, and govern both our hearts and
bodies in the ways of Your laws and in the works of Your commandments
that through Your mighty protection we may ever be preserved in both
body and soul; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
905 Come,
Thou Almighty King
LSB 905
1 Come,
Thou almighty King,
Help us Thy name to sing;
Help us to praise;
Father all-glorious,
O’er all victorious,
Come and reign over us,
Ancient of Days.
Help us Thy name to sing;
Help us to praise;
Father all-glorious,
O’er all victorious,
Come and reign over us,
Ancient of Days.
2 Come,
Thou incarnate Word,
Gird on Thy mighty sword;
Our prayer attend.
Come and Thy people bless,
And give Thy Word success,
And let Thy righteousness
On us descend.
Gird on Thy mighty sword;
Our prayer attend.
Come and Thy people bless,
And give Thy Word success,
And let Thy righteousness
On us descend.
3 Come,
holy Comforter,
Thy sacred witness bear
In this glad hour!
Thou, who almighty art,
Now rule in ev’ry heart,
And ne’er from us depart,
Spirit of pow’r.
Thy sacred witness bear
In this glad hour!
Thou, who almighty art,
Now rule in ev’ry heart,
And ne’er from us depart,
Spirit of pow’r.
4 To
Thee, great One in Three,
Eternal praises be
Hence evermore!
Thy sov’reign majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity
Love and adore.
Eternal praises be
Hence evermore!
Thy sov’reign majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity
Love and adore.
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Apostles'
Creed
C I
believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker
of heaven and earth.
And
in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who
was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born
of the virgin Mary,
suffered
under Pontius Pilate,
was
crucified, died and was buried.
He
descended into hell.
The
third day He rose again from the dead.
He
ascended into heaven
and
sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From
thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I
believe in the Holy Spirit,
the
holy Christian Church,
the
communion of saints,
the
forgiveness of sins,
the
resurrection of the body,
and
the life T everlasting.
Amen.
Lord's
Prayer
C Our
Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Benediction
(Aaronic)
P The
Lord bless you and keep you.
The
Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.
The
Lord look upon you with favor and T give
you peace.
C Amen.
Acknowledgments
Unless
otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy
Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway
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