2 Kings 1:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he said, Why have you turned back?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is it that ye are returned?

Common English Bible

⁵ The messengers returned to Ahaziah. He said to them, “Why have you come back?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And the messengers returned to Ahaziah. And he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?

2 Kings 1:5 Cross References

2 Kings 1:4

Now therefore thus says the Lord, ‘You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.’ ” So Elijah went.

2 Kings 1:6

And they said to him, “There came a man to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the Lord, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but shall surely die.’ ”