When the man of the true God declines the invitation, the old man replies: “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel himself spoke to me by the word of Jehovah, saying, ‘ Have him come back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water. ’ ”
असे करण्यामागे त्या वृद्ध संदेष्ट्याचा काय हेतू होता हे आपल्याला माहीत नाही.