2 Kings 1

¹ After Ahab's death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

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

³ But the angel of the LORD 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 God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?'"

⁴ "Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'You will not get down from the bed you have gone up to. You will certainly die.'" Then Elijah left.

⁵ The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, "Why have you come back?"

⁶ They said to him, "A man came up to meet us and said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you and say to him: This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get down from the bed you have gone up to. You will certainly die.'"

⁷ He said to them, "What sort of man was it who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?"

⁸ They answered him, "A hairy man with a leather belt tied around his waist." He said, "That is Elijah the Tishbite."

⁹ Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. He went up to him, and there he was, sitting on the top of a hill. He said to him, "Man of God, the king says, 'Come down.'"

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty men. He went up and said to him, "Man of God, this is what the king says: 'Come down quickly.'"

¹² 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.

¹³ Again the king sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men. The third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, saying, "Man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight."

¹⁴ "Look, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now, let my life be precious in your sight."

¹⁵ The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, "Go down with him. Do not be afraid of him." So he got up and went down with him to the king.

¹⁶ He said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because you 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 will not get down from the bed you have gone up to. You will certainly die.'"

¹⁷ So he died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.

¹⁸ As for 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?