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2 Kings 1 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Ahaziah's Messengers Meet Elijah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 - Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - And Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and became ill. So he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:3 - 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 because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:4 - “Now therefore thus says the LORD, ‘[fn]You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” Then Elijah departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:5 - When the messengers returned to him he said to them, “[fn]Why have you returned?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - 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, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore [fn]you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:7 - He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - They [fn]answered him, “He was a hairy man with a leather girdle [fn]bound about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - Elijah replied to 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:11 - So he again sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he said to him, “O man of God, thus says the king, ‘Come down quickly.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - Elijah replied to 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - So he again sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. When the third captain of fifty went up, he came and bowed down on his knees before Elijah, and begged him and said to him, “O man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - “Behold fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my [fn]life be precious in your sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:15 - The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - Then he said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘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 [fn]you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”

Jehoram Reigns over Israel

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:17 - So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And because he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: The bed where you went up, you shall not come down from it
Literally: What is this that you have returned?
V 4, note 1
Literally: said
Or, girt
Literally: soul
V 4, note 1
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2 Kings Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras