8. The man of God said to the king, “If you gave me half your palace, I would not go with you, nor eat bread or drink water in this place.
9. For I was instructed by the word of the Lord: Do not eat bread or drink water, and do not return by the way you came.”
10. So he departed by another road and did not go back the way he had come to Bethel.
11. There was an old prophet living in Bethel, whose son came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. When his sons repeated to their father the words the man of God had spoken to the king,
12. the father asked them, “Which way did he go?” So his sons pointed out to him the road taken by the man of God who had come from Judah.
13. Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled it, he mounted
14. and followed the man of God, whom he found seated under a terebinth. When he asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” he answered, “Yes.”
15. Then he said, “Come home with me and have some bread.”