11 Now a certain 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. His sons also told their father the words that he had spoken to the king.
12 Then their father said to them, “Which way did he go? ” His sons had seen the way taken by the man of God who had come from Judah.
13 Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him, and he got on it.
14 He followed the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah? ”“I am,” he said.
15 Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”
16 But he answered, “I cannot go back with you, eat bread, or drink water with you in this place,
17 for a message came to me by the word of the Lord: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or go back by the way you came.’ ”