1 Kings 13:12

12 Then their father asked them, "{Which way did he go}?" His sons had seen the way which the man of God who had come from Judah had taken.

1 Kings 13:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 13:12

And their father said unto them, what way went he?
&c.] Having a strong inclination to see him, and converse with him:

for his sons had seen what way the man of God went which came from
Judah;
they took notice of it; and, as the Targum, they showed it to their father.

1 Kings 13:12 In-Context

10 So he went another way, and he did not return by the way on which he had come to Bethel.

11 Now a certain older prophet was living in Bethel, and his son came and recounted to him all of the things that the man of God had done that day in Bethel [and] the words he had spoken to the king, and they told them to their father.

12 Then their father asked them, "{Which way did he go}?" His sons had seen the way which the man of God who had come from Judah had taken.

13 Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it

14 and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under the oak and said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I [am]."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "Where [is] this way he went?"