1After King Ahab died, Moab refused to remain under Israel’s control.2Ahaziah had fallen through the window of his upstairs room in Samaria. He had hurt himself. So he sent messengers to ask the god named Baal-Zebub for advice. Baal-Zebub was the god of the city of Ekron. Ahaziah said to the messengers, ‘Go and ask Baal-Zebub whether I will get well again.’3But the angel of the LORD spoke to Elijah, who was from Tishbe. The angel said, ‘Go up to see the messengers of Ahaziah, the king of Samaria. Tell them, “You are on your way to ask Baal-Zebub for advice. He is the god of Ekron. Are you going there to pray to that god? Do you think there is no God in Israel?”4The LORD says to Ahaziah, “You will never leave the bed you are lying on. You can be sure that you will die!” ’ So Elijah went to see the messengers.5They returned to the king. He asked them, ‘Why have you come back?’6‘A man met us on our way there,’ they replied. ‘He said to us, “Go back to the king who sent you. Tell him, ‘The LORD says, “You are sending messengers to ask Baal-Zebub for advice. He is the god of Ekron. Are you going there to pray to that god? Do you think there is no God in Israel? You will never leave the bed you are lying on. You can be sure that you will die!” ’ ” ’7The king asked the messengers, ‘What kind of man came to see you? Who told you these things?’8They replied, ‘He was wearing clothes made out of hair. He had a leather belt around his waist.’ The king said, ‘That was Elijah from Tishbe.’9Then Ahaziah sent a captain to Elijah. The captain had his group of 50 fighting men with him. Elijah was sitting on top of a hill. The captain went up to him. He said to Elijah, ‘Man of God, the king says, “Come down!” ’10Elijah answered the captain, ‘If I’m really a man of God, may fire come down from heaven! May it burn up you and your 50 men!’ Then fire came down from heaven. It burned up the captain and his men.11After that happened, the king sent another captain to Elijah. The captain had his 50 men with him. He said to Elijah, ‘Man of God, the king says, “Come down at once!” ’12Elijah replied, ‘If I’m really a man of God, may fire come down from heaven! May it burn up you and your 50 men!’ Then the fire of God came down from heaven. It burned up the captain and his 50 men.13So the king sent a third captain with his 50 men. The captain went up to Elijah. He fell on his knees in front of him. ‘Man of God,’ he begged, ‘please have respect for my life! Please have respect for the lives of these 50 men!14Fire has come down from heaven. It has burned up the first two captains and all their men. But please have respect for my life!’15The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, ‘Go down along with him. Don’t be afraid of him.’ So Elijah got up and went down to the king with the captain.16Elijah told the king, ‘The LORD says, “You have sent messengers to ask Baal-Zebub for advice. He is the god of Ekron. Did you go there to pray to that god for advice? Do you think there is no God in Israel? You will never leave the bed you are lying on. You can be sure that you will die!” ’17So King Ahaziah died. It happened just as the LORD had said it would. He had spoken that message through Elijah. Ahaziah didn’t have any sons. So Joram, his younger brother, became the next king after him. It was the second year of Jehoram, the king of Judah. Jehoram was the son of Jehoshaphat.18All the other events of Ahaziah’s rule are written down. Everything he did is written in the official records of the kings of Israel.
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Elijah Denounces Ahaziah
1After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.2Now 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.”3But 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?4Now 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.5The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”6And 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.’”7He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?”8They answered him, “He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”9Then 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.’”10But 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.11Again 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!’”12But 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.13Again 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.14Behold, 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.”15Then 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 king16and 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.’”17So 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.18Now 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?
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