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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 NIV</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">NIV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_kings/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The <span class="name">Lord</span>’s Judgment on Ahaziah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.”</p> <p class="reg"><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="name">Lord</span> said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’ ” So Elijah went.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you come back?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!” ’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The king asked them, “What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They replied, “He had a garment of hair <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or He was a hairy man">a</a></sup></span> and had a leather belt around his waist.”</p><p class="reg">The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He told the king, “This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!” <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="name">Lord</span> that Elijah had spoken.</p><p class="reg">Because Ahaziah had no son, Joram <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Jehoram, a variant of Joram">b</a></sup></span> succeeded him as king in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As for all the other events of Ahaziah’s reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>He was a hairy man</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Jehoram,</i> a variant of <i>Joram</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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