15. Then he said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some food.”
16. “No, I cannot,” he replied. “I am not allowed to eat or drink anything here in this place.
17. For the lord gave me this command: ‘You must not eat or drink anything while you are there, and do not return to Judah by the same way you came.’”
18. But the old prophet answered, “I am a prophet, too, just as you are. And an angel gave me this command from the lord: ‘Bring him home with you so he can have something to eat and drink.’” But the old man was lying to him.