1 Kings 13:7-10 ▼

7 Then the king declared to the man of God, “Come home with me, refresh yourself, and I’ll give you a reward.”

8 But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your house, I still wouldn’t go with you, and I wouldn’t eat food or drink water in this place,

9 for this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat food or drink water or go back the way you came.’ ”

10 So he went another way; he did not go back by the way he had come to Bethel.