11. Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. His sons came and told him everything that the man of God had done that day at Bethel. They also told their father the words that he spoke to the king.
12. "Which way did he go?" their father asked them. His sons had seen the way the man of God went when he came from Judah.
13. The old prophet said to his sons, "Saddle my donkey." So they saddled his donkey, and he got on it.
14. He went after the man of God and found him sitting underneath a terebinth tree. He said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?""I am," he replied.
15. The old prophet then said to him, "Come home with me and eat some food."
16. But the man of God answered, "I can’t return or go with you, and I can’t eat food or drink water with you in this place
17. because of the message that came to me from the Lord’s word: Don’t eat food! Don’t drink water! Don’t return by the way you came!"
18. The old prophet said to the man of God, "I’m also a prophet like you. A messenger spoke to me with the Lord’s word, ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat food and drink water.’"But the old prophet was lying to him.
19. So the man of God went back with the old prophet. He ate food in his home and drank water.