2 Kings 1:5

World Messianic Bible British Edition

The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”

Cross References

2 Kings 1:4

Now therefore the LORD says, “You will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.”’” Then Elijah departed.

2 Kings 1:6

They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “The LORD says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to enquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’”