2 Kings 1 - Lighthouse Bible 2006

¹ Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

² And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover from this disease.

³ 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 not because there is not a God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?

⁴ Now therefore thus says the LORD, You shall not come down from that bed on which you are gone up, but shall surely die. And Elijah departed.

⁵ And when the messengers came back to him, he said to them, Why have you now come back?

⁶ And they said to him, There came a man up to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn back to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore you shall not come down from that bed on which you are gone up, but shall surely die.

⁷ And he said to them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

⁸ And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and clothed with a waistband of leather around his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

⁹ Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him, You man of God, the king has said, Come down.

¹⁰ And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty men. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty men.

¹¹ Again also he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he answered and said to him, O man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly.

¹² And Elijah answered and said to them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty men. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty men.

¹³ And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty men. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, and said to him, O man of God, I pray you, let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.

¹⁴ Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in your sight.

¹⁵ And the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him to the king.

¹⁶ And he said to him, Thus says the LORD, Seeing that you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore you shall not come down off of that bed on which you are gone up, but shall surely die.

¹⁷ So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

¹⁸ Now the rest of the deeds of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?