2 Kings 1:5
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New International Version (©2011)
When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you come back?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you returned so soon?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”

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

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The messengers returned to the king, who asked them, "Why have you come back?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
The messengers returned to the king and he asked them, "What's this? You've come back?"

NET Bible (©2006)
When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you returned?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When the messengers returned, the king asked them, "Why have you come back so soon?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when the messengers returned unto him, he said unto them, Why are you now returned ?

American King James Version
And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them, Why are you now turned back?

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
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?

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?"

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-8 When Ahaziah rebelled against the Lord, Moab revolted from him. Sin weakens and impoverishes us. Man's revolt from God is often punished by the rebellion of those who owe subjection to him. Ahaziah fell through a lattice, or railing. Wherever we go, there is but a step between us and death. A man's house is his castle, but not to secure him against God's judgments. The whole creation, which groans under the burden of man's sin, will, at length, sink and break under the weight like this lattice. He is never safe that has God for his enemy. Those that will not inquire of the word of God for their comfort, shall hear it to their terror, whether they will or no.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - And when the messengers turned back; rather, when the messengers returned; i.e. when they reached the presence of Ahaziah, he perceived at once that they could not have been to Ekron and come back in the time. He therefore inquired of them, Why are ye now turned back? "Why have ye not completed your journey?"

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. the messengers turned back—They did not know the stranger; but his authoritative tone, commanding attitude, and affecting message determined them at once to return.

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Elijah Denounces Ahaziah
…4Now therefore thus said the LORD, You shall not come down from that bed on which you are gone up, but shall surely die. And Elijah departed. 5And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them, Why are you now turned back? 6And they said to him, There came a man up to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus said the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore you shall not come down from that bed on which you are gone up, but shall surely die. …

2 Kings 1:4 Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!'" So Elijah went.
2 Kings 1:6 "A man came to meet us," they replied. "And he said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, "This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!"'"