Bible verse
“Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
1 Kings 13:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Kings 13.
8 But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
9 For this is what 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 the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
11 Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
12 “Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
13 So the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it
14 and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
15 So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
16 But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
KJV
And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
ASV
And their father said unto them, What way went he? Now his sons had seen what way the man of God went, that came from Judah.
ERV
And their father said unto them, What way went he? Now his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
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