{Tell King Ahaziah these things: You sent messengers to ask questions from Baal Zebub.} Since you did this thing, the Lord says: You will not get up from your bed. You will die!’” Then Elijah left {and told these words to Ahaziah’s servants}.
2 Kings 1:5 - Easy To Read Version The messengers came back to Ahaziah. Ahaziah said to the messengers, “Why did you come back {so soon}?” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he said, Why have you turned back? American Standard Version (1901) And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is it that ye are returned? Common English Bible The messengers returned to Ahaziah. He said to them, “Why have you come back?” Catholic Public Domain Version And the messengers returned to Ahaziah. And he said to them, "Why have you returned?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back? |
{Tell King Ahaziah these things: You sent messengers to ask questions from Baal Zebub.} Since you did this thing, the Lord says: You will not get up from your bed. You will die!’” Then Elijah left {and told these words to Ahaziah’s servants}.
The messengers said to Ahaziah, “A man came up to meet us. He told us to go back to the king who sent us, and tell him what the Lord says. The Lord says, ‘There is a God in Israel! So why did you send messengers to ask questions from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Since you did this thing, you will not get up from your bed. You will die!’”