12. And their father said to them, "By which way did he depart?" His sons showed him the way by which the man of God, who had come from Judah, had departed.
13. And he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." And when they had saddled it, he climbed on,
14. and he went away after the man of God. And he found him sitting under a terebinth tree. And he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he responded, "I am."
15. And he said to him, "Come home with me, so that you may eat bread."
16. But he said: "I am not able to turn back, nor to go with you. Neither will I eat bread, or drink water in this place.