2 Kings 1:5
Good News Translation
and the messengers returned to the king. "Why have you come back?" he asked.

New Revised Standard Version
The messengers returned to the king, who said to them, “Why have you returned?”

Contemporary English Version
When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he asked, "Why are you back so soon?"

New American Bible
The messengers then returned to Ahaziah, who asked them, “Why have you returned?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?

Context
Elijah Denounces Ahaziah
4Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias went away. 5And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?6But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die.…
Cross References
2 Kings 1:4
Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias went away.

2 Kings 1:6
But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die.

2 Kings 1:4
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