9. For so it was enjoined me by the word of the Lord commanding me: Thou shalt not eat bread nor drink water, nor return by the same way that thou camest.
10. So he departed by another way, and returned not by the way that he came into Bethel.
11. Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came to him and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: and they told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
12. And their father said to them: What way went he? His sons shewed him the way by which the man of God went, who came out of Juda.
13. And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass. And when they had saddled him, he got up,