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So he sent messengers and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>But the angel of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel <i>that</i> 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" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Now therefore thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you shall surely die. Then Elijah departed.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>When the messengers returned to him he said to them, Why have you returned? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>They said to him, A man came up to meet us and said to us, Go, return to the king who sent you and say to him, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, Is it because there is no God in Israel <i>that</i> you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>He said to them, What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>They answered him, <i>He was</i> a hairy man with a leather girdle bound about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Then <i>the king</i> sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, O man of God, the king says, Come down. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Elijah replied to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>So he again sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he said to him, O man of God, thus says the king, Come down quickly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Elijah replied to them, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>So he again sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. When the third captain of fifty went up, he came and bowed down on his knees before Elijah, and begged him and said to him, O man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Behold fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>The angel of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Elijah, Go down with him; do not be afraid of him. So he arose and went down with him to the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Then he said to him, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekronis it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word?therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jehoram Reigns over Israel</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>So Ahaziah died according to the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> which Elijah had spoken. 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