| 11 | Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words also which he had spoken to the king, they told to their father. |
| 12 | And their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" And his sons showed him the way which the man of God who came from Judah had gone. |
| 13 | And he said to his sons, "Saddle the ass for me." So they saddled the ass for him and he mounted it. |
| 14 | And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am." |
| 15 | Then he said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread." |
| 16 | And he said, "I may not return with you, or go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place; |
| 17 | for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, `You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.'" |
| 18 | And he said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, `Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him. |
| 19 | So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water. |
| 20 | And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back; |
| 21 | and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, "Thus says the LORD, `Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you, |
| 22 | but have come back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water"; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'" |
| 23 | And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the ass for the prophet whom he had brought back. |
| 24 | And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the ass stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body. |
| 25 | And behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown in the road, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. |
| 26 | And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and slain him, according to the word which the LORD spoke to him." |
| 27 | And he said to his sons, "Saddle the ass for me." And they saddled it. |
| 28 | And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the ass and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the ass. |
| 29 | And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back to the city, to mourn and to bury him. |
| 30 | And he laid the body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" |
| 31 | And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. |
| 32 | For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Sama'ria, shall surely come to pass." |