2 Kings 1:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Soon after King Ahab of Israel died, the country of Moab rebelled against his son King Ahaziah. One day, Ahaziah fell through the wooden slats around the porch on the flat roof of his palace in Samaria, and he was badly injured. So he sent some messengers to the town of Ekron with orders to ask the god Baalzebub if he would get well.

Cross References

2 Samuel 8:2

David also defeated the Moabites. Then he made their soldiers lie down on the ground, and he measured them off with a rope. He would measure off two lengths of the rope and have those men killed, then he would measure off one length and let those men live. The people of Moab had to accept David as their ruler and pay taxes to him.

2 Samuel 8:6

He left some of his soldiers in Damascus, and the Arameans had to accept David as their ruler and pay taxes to him. Everywhere David went, the LORD helped him win battles.

2 Kings 8:20

While Jehoram was king, the people of Edom rebelled and chose their own king.

2 Kings 8:22

Judah was never able to regain control of Edom. Even the town of Libnah rebelled at that time.

1 Chronicles 18:2

David also defeated the Moabites, and so they had to accept him as their ruler and pay taxes to him.

Psalm 60:8

Moab is merely my washbasin. Edom belongs to me, and I shout in triumph over the Philistines.”

Numbers 24:7

You and your descendants will prosper like an orchard beside a stream. Your king will rule with power and be a greater king than Agag the Amalekite.