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When the messengers returned to him, he asked them, “Why have you returned?” Then they said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and he said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you and speak to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore the bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, for you will surely die.’”’” Then he spoke to them, “What was the manner of the man who came up to meet you and spoke to you all these things?”

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