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2 Kings 1:5

NETBible	When the messengers returned to the king,¹ he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
NIV © biblegateway 2Ki 1:5	When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you come back?"
NASB © biblegateway 2Ki 1:5	When the messengers returned to him he said to them, "Why have you returned?"
NLT © biblegateway 2Ki 1:5	When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you returned so soon?"
MSG © biblegateway 2Ki 1:5	The messengers went back. The king said, "So why are you back so soon--what's going on?"
BBE © SABDAweb 2Ki 1:5	And the men he had sent came back to the king; and he said to them, Why have you come back?
NRSV © bibleoremus 2Ki 1:5	The messengers returned to the king, who said to them, "Why have you returned?"
NKJV © biblegateway 2Ki 1:5	And when the messengers returned to him, he said to them, "Why have you come back?"
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KJV	And when the messengers <04397> turned back <07725> (8799) unto him, he said <0559> (8799) unto them, Why are ye now <02088> turned back <07725> (8804)_?
NASB © biblegateway 2Ki 1:5	When the messengers <04397> returned <07725> to him he said <0559> to them, "Why <04100> have you returned <07725> ?"
LXXM	kai <2532> CONJ epestrafhsan <1994> V-API-3P oi <3588> T-NPM aggeloi <32> N-NPM prov <4314> PREP auton <846> D-ASM kai <2532> CONJ eipen {V-AAI-3S} prov <4314> PREP autouv <846> D-APM ti <5100> I-ASN oti <3754> CONJ epestreqate <1994> V-AAI-2P
NET [draft] ITL	When the messengers <04397> returned <07725> to <0413> the king, he asked <0559> them, “Why <04100> have you returned <07725> ?”
HEBREW	Mtbs <07725> hz <02088> hm <04100> Mhyla <0413> rmayw <0559> wyla <0413> Mykalmh <04397> wbwsyw (1:5) <07725>

NETBible

When the messengers returned to the king,¹ he asked them, “Why have you returned?”

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “to him.”

¹sn 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.