5. At the same time a wide crack appeared in the altar, and the ashes poured out, just as the man of God had predicted in his message from the lord.
6. The king cried out to the man of God, “Please ask the lord your God to restore my hand again!” So the man of God prayed to the lord, and the king’s hand was restored and he could move it again.
7. Then the king said to the man of God, “Come to the palace with me and have something to eat, and I will give you a gift.”
8. But the man of God said to the king, “Even if you gave me half of everything you own, I would not go with you. I would not eat or drink anything in this place.
9. 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.’”
10. So he left Bethel and went home another way.
11. As it happened, there was an old prophet living in Bethel, and his sons came home and told him what the man of God had done in Bethel that day. They also told their father what the man had said to the king.