1:5 When the messengers returned to the king, 1 he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
[1:5] 1 tn Heb “to him.”
[1:5] 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.
