1 Kings 13:11-17 ▼

11 And a certain aged prophet is dwelling in Beth-El, and his son comes and recounts to him every deed that the man of God has done today in Beth-El, the words that he has spoken to the king—indeed, they recount them to their father.

12 And their father says to them, “Where [is] this—the way he has gone?” And his sons see the way that the man of God who came from Judah has gone.

13 And he says to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they saddle the donkey for him, and he rides on it,

14 and goes after the man of God, and finds him sitting under the oak, and says to him, “Are you the man of God who has come from Judah?” And he says, “I [am].”

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

16 And he says, “I am not able to return with you, and to go in with you, nor do I eat bread or drink water with you in this place,

17 for [there is] a word to me by the word of YHWH, You do not eat bread nor drink water there [and] you do not return to go in the way in which you came.”