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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 MSB</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">MSB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/msb/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/22.htm" title="1 Kings 22">◄</a> 2 Kings 1 <a href="../2_kings/2.htm" title="2 Kings 2">►</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">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/2_kings/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Elijah Denounces Ahaziah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_kings/22.htm#51">1 Kings 22:51–53</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.” <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’ <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” <p class="reg"> So Elijah departed. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“He was a hairy man,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span>” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” <p class="reg">“It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then King Ahaziah sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. So the captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down!’” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” <p class="reg"> And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. And the captain said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down at once!’” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Again Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” <p class="reg"> And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours please be precious in your sight. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Do not be afraid of him.” <p class="reg"> So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.” <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Jehoram Succeeds Ahaziah<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> succeeded him in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>He had a garment of hair</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Jehoram</i> is a variant spelling of <i>Joram</i>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="//majoritybible.com">The Holy Bible, Majority Standard Bible, MSB</a> is produced in cooperation with <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a>, <a href="//discoverybible.com">Discovery Bible</a>, <a href="//openbible.com">OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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