New Revised Standard Version
But when they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.” So they sent fifty men who searched for three days but did not find him.

Contemporary English Version
They kept begging until he was embarrassed to say no. He finally agreed, and the prophets sent the men out. They looked three days for Elijah but never found him.

New American Bible
But they kept urging him, until he was embarrassed and said, “Send them.” So they sent the fifty men, who searched for three days without finding him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they sent fifty men: and they sought three days, but found him not.

But they pressed him, till he consented, and said: Send. And they sent fifty men: and they sought three days, but found him not.

they urged

2 Samuel 18:22,23 Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not I also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my son? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings. . . .

Luke 11:8 Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

Romans 10:2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

found him not

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and he was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.