7 Then the king said to the man of God, “Please come home and eat with me. I will give you a gift.”
8 But the man of God answered the king, “I will not go home with you! Even if you gave me half of your kingdom, I would not go! I will not eat or drink anything in this place.
9 The Lord commanded me not to eat or drink anything. He also commanded me not to return on the same road by which I came.”
10 So he traveled on a different road. He did not return on the same road by which he had come to Bethel.
11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. His sons came and told him what the man of God had done there that day. They told their father what he had said to King Jeroboam.
12 The father asked, “Which road did he use when he left?” So his sons showed him which road the man of God from Judah had taken.
13 The prophet told his sons to put a saddle on his donkey. So they saddled the donkey, and he left.