5
The messengers went back. The king said, "So why are you back so soon - what's going on?"
6
They told him, "A man met us and said, 'Turn around and go back to the king who sent you; tell him, God's message: Is it because there's no God in Israel that you're running off to consult Baal-Zebub god of Ekron? You needn't bother. You're not going to get out of that bed you're in - you're as good as dead already.'"
7
The king said, "Tell me more about this man who met you and said these things to you. What was he like?"
8
"Shaggy," they said, "and wearing a leather belt." He said, "That has to be Elijah the Tishbite!"
9
The king sent a captain with fifty men to Elijah. Meanwhile Elijah was sitting, big as life, on top of a hill. The captain said, "O Holy Man! King's orders: Come down!"