5. The altar also was split apart and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
6. The king said to the man of God, "Please entreat the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." So the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
7. Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward."
8. But the man of God said to the king, "If you were to give me half your house I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
9. For so it was commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way which you came.'"
10. So he went another way and did not return by the way which he came to Bethel.
11. Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they related to their father.