6. Then the king said to the man of God, “Please pray to the Lord your God for me, and ask him to heal my arm.”So the man of God prayed to the Lord, and the king’s arm was healed, becoming as it was before.
7. Then the king said to the man of God, “Please come home and eat with me, and I will give you a gift.”
8. But the man of God answered the king, “Even if you gave me half of your kingdom, I would not go with you. I will not eat or drink anything in this place.
9. The Lord commanded me not to eat or drink anything nor to return on the same road by which I came.”
10. So he took a different road and did not return on the same road by which he had come to Bethel.