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So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the angel of the LORD told Elijah, who was from Tishbe, “Go and confront the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is there no God in Israel? Why are you going to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether the king will recover?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the angel of the LORD 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 that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now, therefore, this is what the LORD says: You will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.’” So Elijah went to deliver the message.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now therefore thus says the LORD, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned so soon?”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They replied, “A man came up to us and told us to go back to the king and give him this message. ‘This is what the LORD says: Is there no God in Israel? Why are you sending men to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will recover? Therefore, because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.’”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And they said to him, “There came a man to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, 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.’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“What sort of man was he?” the king demanded. “What did he look like?”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They replied, “He was a hairy man, and he wore a leather belt around his waist.” “Elijah from Tishbe!” the king exclaimed.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They answered him, “He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then he sent an army captain with fifty soldiers to arrest him. They found him sitting on top of a hill. The captain said to him, “Man of God, the king has commanded you to come down with us.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and killed them all.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Elijah answered 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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the king sent another captain with fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, the king demands that you come down at once.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king’s order, ‘Come down quickly!’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” And again the fire of God fell from heaven and killed them all.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Elijah answered 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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Once more the king sent a third captain with fifty men. But this time the captain went up the hill and fell to his knees before Elijah. He pleaded with him, “O man of God, please spare my life and the lives of these, your fifty servants.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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, “O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">See how the fire from heaven came down and destroyed the first two groups. But now please spare my life!”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him, and don’t be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went with him to the king.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the angel of the LORD 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And Elijah said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: Why did you send messengers to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will recover? Is there no God in Israel to answer your question? Therefore, because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Ahaziah died, just as the LORD had promised through Elijah. Since Ahaziah did not have a son to succeed him, his brother Joram became the next king. This took place in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So he died according to the word of the LORD 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The rest of the events in Ahaziah’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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?</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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