So he went another way, and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.
Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken to the king, them they told also to their father.
For so was I instructed by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor go back by the same way that you came.