9. This is what God commanded me by the Lord’s word: Don’t eat food! Don’t drink water! Don’t return by the way you came!"
10. So the man of God went by a different way. He didn’t return by the way he came to Bethel.
11. Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. His sons came and told him everything that the man of God had done that day at Bethel. They also told their father the words that he spoke to the king.
12. "Which way did he go?" their father asked them. His sons had seen the way the man of God went when he came from Judah.
13. The old prophet said to his sons, "Saddle my donkey." So they saddled his donkey, and he got on it.
14. He went after the man of God and found him sitting underneath a terebinth tree. He said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?""I am," he replied.