2 Kings 1:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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.’ ”