⁸ But the man of God answered the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions,^(A) I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread^(B) or drink water here. ⁹ For I was commanded by the word of the Lord: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’” ¹⁰ So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.