5 The messengers came back to Ahaziah. He asked them, “Why have you come back?”

6 They said, “A man came to meet us. He said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you. Tell him what the Lord says: “Why do you send men to ask questions of Baal-Zebub god of Ekron? Is it because you think there is no God in Israel? This is why you will not get up from your bed. You will die.”’”

7 Ahaziah asked them, “What did the man look like who met you and told you this?”