5. Then the altar was torn apart and the ashes from the altar poured out according to the sign which the man of God had announced by the word of Yahweh.
6. Then the king responded and said to the man of God, “Please entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me that my hand may return to me.” So the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, as it was in the beginning.
7. Then the king spoke to the man of God, “Come with me to the house and refresh yourself, that I may give you a gift.”
8. Then the man of God said to the king, “Even if you give to me half of your house I will not come with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water in this place,
9. for the word of Yahweh has commanded me, saying, ‘You shall not eat bread nor drink water, and you shall not return on the way that you came.’ ”
10. So he went another way, and he did not return by the way on which he had come to Bethel.
11. Now a certain older prophet was living in Bethel, and his son came and recounted to him all of the things that the man of God had done that day in Bethel and the words he had spoken to the king, and they told them to their father.
12. Then their father asked them, “Which way did he go?” His sons had seen the way which the man of God who had come from Judah had taken.
13. Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it
14. and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under the oak and said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”
15. Then he said to him, “Come with me to the house and eat some food.”
16. Then he said, “I am not able to return with you or to go with you. I will not eat food nor will I drink water with you in this place.
17. For a word came to me by the word of Yahweh, ‘You shall not eat food, nor shall you drink water there. You shall not return to go by the way that you came.’ ”
18. Then he said, “I am also a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, ‘Let him return with you to your house that he may eat food and drink water.’ ” He lied to him.
19. So he returned with him and ate food in his house and drank water.