2 Kings 1:5
ContextNET © | When the messengers returned to the king, 1 he asked them, “Why have you returned?” |
NIV © | When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you come back?" |
NASB © | When the messengers returned to him he said to them, "Why have you returned?" |
NLT © | When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you returned so soon?" |
MSG © | The messengers went back. The king said, "So why are you back so soon--what's going on?" |
BBE © | And the men he had sent came back to the king; and he said to them, Why have you come back? |
NRSV © | The messengers returned to the king, who said to them, "Why have you returned?" |
NKJV © | And when the messengers returned to him, he said to them, "Why have you come back?" |
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NET © | When the messengers returned to the king, 1 he asked them, “Why have you returned?” |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “to him.” sn The narrative is elliptical and telescoped here. The account of Elijah encountering the messengers and delivering the Lord’s message is omitted; we only here of it as the messengers report what happened to the king. |