1 Kings 13:11-17 ▼

11 And an old prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came in and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel—the words that he had spoken to the king. And they told their father.

12 And their father said to them, “Where is this—the way he has gone?” For his sons showed him the way that the man of God had gone, who came from Judah.

13 And he said to his sons, “Saddle for me the donkey.” And they saddled for him the donkey, and he rode on it,

14 and he went after the man of God and found him sitting under the oak. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”

15 And he said to him, “Come with me to the house and eat bread.”

16 And he said, “I cannot return with you or go in with you, nor can I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.

17 For I have been told by the word of YHWH, ‘You shall not eat bread, nor drink there water, nor return by going the way that you came in.’”