When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you come back?”
NMVAnd when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are you2f now turned back?
OJBAnd when the malachim turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
T4TSo Elijah went to meet the messengers and told that to them, and they returned to the king instead of going to Ekron. The king asked them, “Why did you return so soon?”