1 Kings 13:14

And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak ,.... To shelter him from the heat, and being faint, hungry, and thirsty; so the ancients of old made use of oaks for a covering, before houses were invented F5 Suidas in voce δενδρυαζειν . ; thus Abraham pitched his tent in the plain, or under the oak, of Mamre, Genesis 13:18 .

and he said unto him, art thou the man of God that camest from Judah ? which he might guess at from his habit, and from the description his sons had given of him:

and he said, I am ; owned himself to be the person he inquired after.