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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 1 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 2 Kings 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/22.htm" title="1 Kings 22">&#9668;</a> 2 Kings 1 <a href="../2_kings/2.htm" title="2 Kings 2">&#9658;</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/2_kings/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters">&nbsp;Par&nbsp;&#9662;&nbsp;</a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Elijah Denounces Ahaziah</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, &#8220;Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.&#8221; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Elijah the Tishbite, &#8220;Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, &#8216;Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.&#8217;&#8221; So Elijah went.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, &#8220;Why have you returned?&#8221; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And they said to him, &#8220;There came a man to meet us, and said to us, &#8216;Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.&#8217;&#8221; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He said to them, &#8220;What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?&#8221; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They answered him, &#8220;He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist.&#8221; And he said, &#8220;It is Elijah the Tishbite.&#8221;</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, &#8220;O man of God, the king says, &#8216;Come down.&#8217;&#8221; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, &#8220;If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.&#8221; Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, &#8220;O man of God, this is the king&#8217;s order, &#8216;Come down quickly!&#8217;&#8221; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But Elijah answered them, &#8220;If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.&#8221; Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, &#8220;O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight.&#8221; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Elijah, &#8220;Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.&#8221; So he arose and went down with him to the king <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and said to him, &#8220;Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, &#8216;Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron&#8212;is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?&#8212;therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.&#8217;&#8221;</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So he died according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that Elijah had spoken. Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition&reg; (2016).<br /><br />The ESV&reg; Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version&reg;) copyright &copy; 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV&reg; text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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