The Second Book of Kings (WEB)
The Second Book of Kings
1:1Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. 1:2Ahaziah fell down through the 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 of this sickness. 1:3But the
angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of
Samaria, and tell them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of
Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? 1:4Now therefore thus says Yahweh, You shall not come down from
the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die. Elijah departed. 1:5The messengers returned to
him, and he said to them, Why is it that you have returned? 1:6They said to him, There came up a
man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king who sent you, and tell him, Thus says
Yahweh, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of
Ekron? therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely
die. 1:7He said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these
words? 1:8They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of leather about his loins.
He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. 1:9Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. He
went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He spoke to him, man of God,
the king has said, Come down. 1:10Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let
fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. Fire came down from the sky, and
consumed him and his fifty. 1:11Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He
answered him, man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly. 1:12Elijah answered them,
If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. The fire of
God came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. 1:13Again he sent the captain of a
third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before
Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty
your servants, be precious in your sight. 1:14Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed
the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.
1:15The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, Go down with him: don't be afraid of him. He arose, and
went down with him to the king. 1:16He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, 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 where you are gone up, but
shall surely die. 1:17So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram
began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah;
because he had no son. 1:18Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, aren't they written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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