So he departed by another road and did not go back the way he had come to Bethel. Prophetic Disunity.
There was an old prophet living in Bethel, whose son came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. When his sons repeated to their father the words the man of God had spoken to the king,
For I was instructed by the word of the Lord: Do not eat bread or drink water, and do not return by the way you came.”