The messengers went all the way back to the king.
“Well?” demanded the king. “What did Beelzebub say?”
“We didn’t get to him,” replied the messengers. “There was this man, and he, er, wanted to know if you were sending us to Beelzebub because you thought there was no God in Israel?”
“And,” said the messengers, feeling very uncomfortable, “the man said you won’t be getting out of that again.”
