6. And the sovereign answered and said to the man of Elohim, “Please appease the face of יהוה your Elohim, and pray for me, that my hand might be restored to me.” And the man of Elohim appeased the face of יהוה, and the sovereign’s hand was restored to him, and became as it was before.
7. The sovereign then said to the man of Elohim, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I give you a gift.”
8. But the man of Elohim said to the sovereign, “If you were to give me half your house, I do not go in with you, nor do I eat bread nor drink water in this place.
9. “For so He commanded me by the word of יהוה, saying, ‘Do not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.’ ”
10. So he went another way and did not return by the way he came to Bĕyth Ěl.
11. And a certain old prophet was dwelling in Bĕyth Ěl, and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of Elohim had done that day in Bĕyth Ěl, the words which he had spoken to the sovereign.
12. And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons had seen which way the man of Elohim went who came from Yehuḏah.
13. And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled the donkey for him, and he rode on it,
14. and went after the man of Elohim, and found him sitting under a terebinth. And he said to him, “Are you the man of Elohim who came from Yehuḏah?” And he said, “I am.”
15. And he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”
16. And he said, “I am not able to return with you or to go in with you, nor am I to eat bread or drink water with you in this place.