7 The king told the man of God, “Come home with me; have something to eat and drink, and I will give you a gift.”
8 The man of God told the king, “Even if you gave me half of your palace, I would never go with you to eat or drink there.
9 When the Lord spoke to me, he commanded me not to eat or drink or go back on the same road I took.”
10 So the man of God left on another road and didn’t go back on the road he had taken to Bethel.
11 An old prophet was living in Bethel. His sons told him everything the man of God did in Bethel that day and the exact words he had spoken to the king. When they told their father,
12 he said to them, “Which road did he take?” (His sons had seen which road the man of God from Judah had taken.)
13 The old prophet told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” After they had saddled the donkey for him, he got on it.