8. The man of God said to the king, “If you were to give me half your house, I would not go with you, nor will I eat bread nor drink water in this place,
9. for so I was commanded by the word of the Lord, saying: You shall eat no bread, nor drink water nor return by the same way that you came.”
10. So he went another way and did not return by the same way he came to Bethel.
11. Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that he had spoken to the king.
12. Their father said to them, “What way did he go?” For his sons had seen the way the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
13. He said to his sons, “Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled the donkey for him, and he rode on it.
14. He went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak, and he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”And he said, “I am.”
15. Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”
16. He said, “I may not return with you or go in with you, nor will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place,
17. for I was commanded by the word of the Lord: You shall eat no bread and drink no water there nor return by the way you came.”
18. He said to him, “I am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” But he had lied to him.
19. So he went back with him to his house and ate bread and drank water.