And their father said to them, 'Which way did he go?' And his sons showed him the way the man of God had gone, who had come from Judah — The old prophet's inquiry about the young prophet's direction is ostensibly innocent curiosity, yet it opens the path to deception. The phrase וַיַּרְאוּ־לוֹ בְנֵיו (vayar'u-lo benav, his sons showed him) shows the old prophet enlisting his sons in the pursuit. The mention that the young man came "from Judah" reminds us of the geographical division and the challenge the southern prophet posed to northern orthodoxy.

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