So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he came to Beit-El.
Now there lived an old prophet in Beit-El; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beit-El: the words which he had spoken to the king, them also they told to their father.
for so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.