8. But the man of God said to the king: “Even if you give me half your house, I will not go with you nor will I eat bread or drink water in this place.
9. For so I was charged by the word of Adonai, saying, ‘You are to eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way by which you came.’”
10. So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
11. Now one old prophet was living in Bethel. His son came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel and all the words that he had spoken to the king they related to their father.
12. Then their father asked them: “Which way did he go?” For his sons had seen which way the man of God that came from Judah went.
13. Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me!” So they saddled the donkey for him and he rode away on it.
14. Then he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he said.
15. “Come home with me,” he said to him, “and eat bread!”
16. But he said: “I cannot return with you nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
17. For it was said to me by the word of Adonai: You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor should you return back by the way by which you came.”