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The messengers returned to Achazyah, and he asked them, “Why have you come back?” They answered him, “A man came to meet us. He told us to go and return to the king who sent us, and tell him, ‘Here is what Adonai says: “Is it because there’s no God in Isra’el that you’re sending to consult Ba‘al-Z’vuv the god of ‘Ekron? Therefore you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will certainly die.”’” He asked them, “The man who came to meet you and told you these things, what kind of a man was he?”

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