14 The old prophet went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked him, “Are you the man of God who just came from Judah?” The man of God answered, “Yes, I am.”
15 So the old prophet said, “Please come home and eat with me.”
16 But the man of God said, “I cannot go home with you. I cannot eat or drink anything in this place.
17 The Lord said to me, ‘You must not eat or drink anything in that place, and you must go back on a different road.’”
18 The old prophet lied to him and said, “But I am a prophet like you. And an angel from the Lord came to me and told me to bring you home and give you something to eat and drink.”
19 So the man of God went to the old prophet’s house and ate and drank with him.
20 While they were sitting at the table, the Lord spoke to the old prophet,