7. Then the king said to the man of God: "Come home with me, so that you may dine. And I will give you gifts."
8. And the man of God responded to the king: "Even if you will give me one half part of your house, I will not go with you, nor eat bread, nor drink water in this place.
9. For so it was commanded to me by the word of the Lord, ordering: 'You shall not eat bread, and you shall not drink water, nor shall you return by the way that you came.' "
10. Then he departed by another way, and he did not return along the way that he had traveled to Bethel.
11. Now a certain elderly prophet was living in Bethel. His sons went to him, and they described to him all the works which the man of God had accomplished on that day in Bethel. And they described to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.
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.