Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 13:20

20 ¶ And it came to pass, as they sat at the table , that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back :

There the Prophet meets with a severe Judgment, where he was pleasing himself with this seasonable refreshment.

By secret instinct into his mind; as sometimes God spake to Moses and other Prophets when they were in company, with others.

So he makes this Prophet publickly to call himself lyar, and to pronounce a terrible Sentence against him, to whom he professed so much kindness. Indeed the Hebrew words are ambiguous, and by others rendred thus, to the Prophet whom he had brought back; which agrees very well with the Hebrew Phrase; and may seem to be the best Translation, by comparing v. 23. where the very same Phrase i[illegible: 1+ letters] so rendred; and ver. 26. where this message is said to be spoken to him. But these Arguments are not cogent; not that from v. 23. because it is a common thing for the same Phrase in divers Verses, and sometimes in one and the same Verse, to be diversly used: nor that from v. 27. for that may be rendred concerning him. And Therefore our Translation is better, as is manifest from v. 21.