10. So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.
11. Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. When his sons came home, they told their father everything the prophet had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king.
12. Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.
13. He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
14. and took off after the prophet, whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”
15. He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.”
16. But he replied, “I can’t go back with you or eat and drink with you in this place.