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The messengers then returned to him. He said to them, “Why have you come back?” They answered him, “A man came up to meet us and he said, ‘Return to the king who sent you and say: Thus says the Lord: Is it because there is no god in Israel that you have sent to make inquiry of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? You shall not rise from the bed on which you lie; you will surely die.’ ”

The king asked them, “What sort of man was this who came up to meet you and who said these words to you?”

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