For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: 'You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.'"
Cross References
1 Kings 13:8But the man of God replied, "If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
1 Kings 13:10So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
1 Kings 13:16But the man replied, "I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
Treasury of Scripture
For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that you came.
For
1 Kings 12:1,21,22
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king…
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Job 23:12
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Eat no bread
Numbers 16:26
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
Deuteronomy 13:13-18
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; …
Psalm 141:4
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
