2 Kings 1:5 - Tree of Life Version

⁵ When the messengers returned to the king, he asked 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?"

2 Kings 1:5 Cross References

2 Kings 1:4

Therefore thus says Adonai: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on, for you will surely die.’” And Elijah departed.

2 Kings 1:6

They answered him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us: ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and say to him, thus says Adonai, “Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on, for you will surely die.”’”