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2 Kings 1 :: New International Version (NIV)

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The Lord’s Judgment on Ahaziah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 - After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:3 - But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:4 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’ ” So Elijah went.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:5 - When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you come back?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - “A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:7 - The king asked them, “What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - They replied, “He had a garment of hair[fn] and had a leather belt around his waist.” The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:11 - At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - “If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!”

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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 Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - He told the king, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:17 - So he died, according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. Because Ahaziah had no son, Joram[fn] succeeded him as king in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - As for all the other events of Ahaziah’s reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?
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Or He was a hairy man
Hebrew Jehoram, a variant of Joram
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2 Kings Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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