2 Kings 1:5

Bishop's Bible

And when the messengers turned backe againe vnto him, he saide vnto them: Why are ye now come againe?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The messengers returned to the king, who asked them, “Why have you come back?”

Hebrew Names Version
The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it that you have returned?

King James Version
And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?

English Standard Version
The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

New Century Version
When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he asked them, "Why have you returned?"

New English Translation
When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you returned?"

Amplified Bible
When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he said to them, "Why have you returned [so soon]?"

New American Standard Bible
When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the messengers returned vnto him, to whome he said, Why are ye nowe returned?

Legacy Standard Bible
So the messengers returned to him, and he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

Contemporary English Version
When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he asked, "Why are you back so soon?"

Complete Jewish Bible
The messengers returned to Achazyah, and he asked them, "Why have you come back?"

Darby Translation
And the messengers returned to him; and he said to them, Why have ye returned?

Easy-to-Read Version
When messengers came back to Ahaziah, he asked them, "Why did you come back so soon?"

George Lamsa Translation
And when the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he said to them, Why have you turned back?

Good News Translation
and the messengers returned to the king. "Why have you come back?" he asked.

Lexham English Bible
When the messengers returned to him, he asked them, "Why have you returned?"

Literal Translation
And the messengers returned to him. And he said to them, What is this, that you have turned back?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wha ye messaunges came to Ochosias agayne, he sayde vnto the: Why come ye agayne?

American Standard Version
And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is it that ye are returned?

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?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them: 'Why is it that ye are returned?'

King James Version (1611)
And when the messengers turned backe vnto him, he said vnto them, Why are ye now turned backe?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why have ye returned?

English Revised Version
And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them, Why is it that ye are returned?

Berean Standard Bible
When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you returned?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Elie yede. And the messangeris turneden ayen to Ocozie. And he seide to hem, Whi turneden ye ayen?

Young's Literal Translation
And the messengers turn back unto him, and he saith unto them, `What [is] this -- ye have turned back!'

Update Bible Version
And the messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it that you have returned?

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them, Why have ye now returned?

World English Bible
The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it that you have returned?

New King James Version
And when the messengers returned to him, he said to them, "Why have you come back?"

New Living Translation
When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you returned so soon?"

New Life Bible
When the men returned to Ahaziah, he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

New Revised Standard
The messengers returned to the king, who said to them, "Why have you returned?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when the messengers returned unto him, he said unto them - How is it that ye have returned?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?

Revised Standard Version
The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

THE MESSAGE
The messengers went back. The king said, "So why are you back so soon—what's going on?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the messengers returned to him he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Ahab. ² And Ahazia fell through a lattesse wyndowe of his vpper chamber that he had in Samaria, and while he was in his sickenesse, he sent messengers and saide vnto them: Go, and enquire of Beelzebub the god of Ekrom, whether I shall recouer of this my disease. ³ But the angell of the Lorde spake to Elias the Thesbite: Arise, and go vp against the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say vnto them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to aske counsel at Beelzebub the God of Ekrom? ⁴ Wherefore thus saith the Lorde: Thou shalt not come downe fro the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death. And Elias departed. ⁵ And when the messengers turned backe againe vnto him, he saide vnto them: Why are ye now come againe? ⁶ They aunswered him: There came a man vp against vs, and sayde vnto vs: Go, & turne againe vnto the king that sent you, and saye vnto him, thus saith the Lorde: Is there not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquyre of Beelzebub the God of Ekrom? Therefore thou shalt not come downe from the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt dye the death. ⁷ And he said vnto them: What maner of man was that which came vp and met you, and tolde you these wordes? ⁸ And they aunswered him: It was an heery man, and girt with a girdell of leather about his loynes. And he saide: It is Elias the Thesbite.

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Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.

Genesis 1:13
And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.

Genesis 1:19
And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.

Genesis 1:31
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest, colde and heate, sommer and wynter, day and nyght, ceasse all the dayes of the earth.

Psalms 19:2
A day occasioneth talke therof vnto a day: and a night teacheth knoweledge vnto a nyght.

Psalms 74:16
The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne.

Psalms 104:20
Thou makest darknes and it is night: wherein all the beastes of the forrest do go abrode.

Isaiah 45:7
It is I that created light and darknesse, I make peace and trouble: yea euen I the Lorde do all these thinges.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the messengers turned back unto him,.... To Ahaziah king of Israel, as they did as soon as Elijah was gone from them; concluding from his habit, his gravity, and the authority with which he spoke, that he was a prophet of the Lord, and especially from his knowledge of them, and of what they were sent about:

he said unto them, why are ye now turned back? for, by the time they had been gone, he knew they could never have been at Ekron and returned.