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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">◄</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Elijah and King Ahaziah</h3><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.1" class="v12_1_1">1</span>After the death of King Ahab of Israel the country of Moab rebelled against Israel.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.2" class="v12_1_2">2</span>King Ahaziah of Israel fell off the balcony on the roof of his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent some messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, in order to find out whether or not he would recover. </span><span class="v12_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.3" class="v12_1_3">3</span>But an angel of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> commanded Elijah, the prophet from Tishbe, to go and meet the messengers of King Ahaziah and ask them, “Why are you going to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron? Is it because you think there is no god in Israel? </span><span class="v12_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.4" class="v12_1_4">4</span>Tell the king that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, ‘You will not recover from your injuries; you will die!’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_4">Elijah did as the <span class="nd">Lord</span> commanded, </span><span class="v12_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.5" class="v12_1_5">5</span>and the messengers returned to the king. “Why have you come back?” he asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.6" class="v12_1_6">6</span>They answered, “We were met by a man who told us to come back and tell you that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> says to you, ‘Why are you sending messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron? Is it because you think there is no god in Israel? You will not recover from your injuries; you will die!’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.7" class="v12_1_7">7</span>“What did the man look like?” the king asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.8" class="v12_1_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.1.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “He was wearing a cloak made of animal skins, tied with<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.1.8!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> a leather belt,” they answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_8">“It's Elijah!” the king exclaimed.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.9" class="v12_1_9">9</span>Then he sent an officer with fifty men to get Elijah. The officer found him sitting on a hill and said to him, “Man of God, the king orders you to come down.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.10" class="v12_1_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.1.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “If I am a man of God,” Elijah answered, “may fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!” At once fire came down and killed the officer and his men.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.11" class="v12_1_11">11</span>The king sent another officer with fifty men, who went up<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.1.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king orders you to come down at once!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.12" class="v12_1_12">12</span>“If I am a man of God,” Elijah answered, “may fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!” At once the fire of God came down and killed the officer and his men.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.13" class="v12_1_13">13</span>Once more the king sent an officer with fifty men. He went up the hill, fell on his knees in front of Elijah, and pleaded, “Man of God, be merciful to me and my men. Spare our lives! </span><span class="v12_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.14" class="v12_1_14">14</span>The two other officers and their men were killed by fire from heaven; but please be merciful to me!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.15" class="v12_1_15">15</span>The angel of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Elijah, “Go down with him, and don't be afraid.” So Elijah went with the officer to the king </span><span class="v12_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.16" class="v12_1_16">16</span>and said to him, “This is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> says: ‘Because you sent messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron—as if there were no god in Israel to consult—you will not get well; you will die!’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.17" class="v12_1_17">17</span>Ahaziah died, as the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said through Elijah. Ahaziah had no sons, so his brother<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.1.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Joram succeeded him as king in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_1_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.1.18" class="v12_1_18">18</span>Everything else that King Ahaziah did is recorded in <span class="bk">The History of the Kings of Israel</span>.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.8: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">was wearing … with; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">was a hairy man and wore.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.11: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">went up; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">answered.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.17: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">his brother; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew does not have these words.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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