2 Kings 1:5

Wycliffe Bible

And Elie yede. And the messangeris turneden ayen to Ocozie. And he seide to hem, Whi turneden ye ayen?

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?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the messengers turned backe againe vnto him, he saide vnto them: Why are ye now come againe?

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?"

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 Forsothe Moab trespasside ayens Israel, after that Achab was deed. ² And Ocozie felde thorou the aleris of his soler, which he hadde in Samarie, and was sijk; and he sente messangeris, and seide to hem, Go ye, and councele Belzebub, god of Acharon, whether Y may lyue after this sijknesse of me. ³ Forsothe the aungel of the Lord spak to Elye of Thesbi, and seide, Rise thou, and go doun into the metynge of the messangeris of the kyng of Samarie; and thou schalt seie to hem, Whether God is not in Israel, that ye go to counsel Belzebub, god of Acharon? ⁴ For which thing the Lord seith these thingis, Thou schalt not go doun of the bed, on which thou stiedist. ⁵ And Elie yede. And the messangeris turneden ayen to Ocozie. And he seide to hem, Whi turneden ye ayen? ⁶ And thei answeriden to hym, A man mette vs, and seide to vs, Go ye, turne ye ayen to the kyng, that sente you; and ye schulen seie to him, The Lord seith these thingis, Whether for God was not in Israel, thou sendist, that Belzebub, god of Acharon, be counselid? Therfor thou schalt not go doun of the bed, on which thou stiedist, but thou schalt die bi deeth. ⁷ Which Ocozie seide to hem, Of what figure and abite is that man, that mette you, and spak to you these wordis? ⁸ And thei seiden, An heeri man, and gird with a girdil of skyn in the reynes. Which seide to hem, It is Elie of Thesbi.

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Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God clepide the firmament, heuene. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai.

Genesis 1:13
And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the thridde dai.

Genesis 1:19
And the euentid and the morwetid was maad, the fourthe dai.

Genesis 1:23
And the euentid and the morwetid was maad, the fyuethe dai.

Genesis 1:31
And God seiy alle thingis whiche he made, and tho weren ful goode. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the sixte day.

Genesis 8:22
in alle the daies of erthe, seed and ripe corn, coold and heete, somer and wyntir, nyyt and dai, shulen not reste.

Psalms 19:2
The dai tellith out to the dai a word; and the nyyt schewith kunnyng to the nyyt.

Psalms 74:16
The dai is thin, and the niyt is thin; thou madist the moreutid and the sunne.

Psalms 104:20
Thou hast set derknessis, and nyyt is maad; alle beestis of the wode schulen go ther ynne.

Isaiah 45:7
Y am the Lord, and noon other God is; fourmynge liyt, and makynge derknessis, makynge pees, and fourmynge yuel; Y am the Lord, doynge alle these thingis.

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.