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.