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2 Kings 1:5
When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
King James Version
And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
World English Bible
The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”
American Standard Version
And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is it that ye are returned?
Geneva Bible 1599
And the messengers returned vnto him, to whome he said, Why are ye nowe returned?
Darby Translation
And the messengers returned to him; and he said to them, Why have ye returned?
Young's Literal Translation
And the messengers turn back unto him, and he saith unto them, 'What [is] this — ye have turned back!'
Bible in Basic English
And the men he had sent came back to the king; and he said to them, Why have you come back?
4Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” So Elijah departed.
6They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”
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