2 Kings 1

1 ¹ After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

² Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury."

³ But the messenger of our Father said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up, go to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, 'Is it because there is no Father in Israel that you are going off to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?'"

⁴ Therefore this is what our Father says: 'You will not get up from the bed you have climbed into; you will surely die.'" And Elijah went.

⁵ When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you come back?"

⁶ They answered him, "A man came up to meet us and said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you and tell him: This is what our Father says: Is it because there is no Father in Israel that you are sending men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed you have climbed into; you will surely die.'"

⁷ The king asked them, "What kind of man was it who came up to meet you and told you these things?"

⁸ They replied, "He wore a garment of hair, with a leather belt around his waist." And the king said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."

⁹ Then the king sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty. The captain went up to him as he was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, "Man of our Father, the king says, 'Come down.'"

¹⁰ Elijah replied to the captain, "If I am a man of our Father, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

¹¹ Again the king sent to him another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, "Man of our Father, this is what the king says: 'Come down at once.'"

¹² Elijah replied to them, "If I am a man of our Father, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And the fire of our Father came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

¹³ Once more the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, "Man of our Father, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight." ¹⁴ Look, fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two captains with all their men. But now let my life be precious in your sight.

¹⁵ The messenger of our Father said to Elijah, "Go down with him; do not be afraid of him." So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.

¹⁶ He said to the king, "This is what our Father says: Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron — is it because there is no Father in Israel to inquire of his word? — therefore you will not get up from the bed you have climbed into; you will surely die."

Ahaziah Dies as the Father Spoke

¹⁷ So Ahaziah died, according to the word of our Father that Elijah had spoken. Since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him as king, in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.

¹⁸ As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, the things he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?