King James Version2 Kings1

2 Kings

1 Then Moab re­belled against Is­rael af­ter the death of Ahab. 2 And Ahazi­ah fell down through a lat­tice in his up­per cham­ber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent mes­sen­gers, and said unto them, Go, en­quire of Baalze­bub the god of Ekron whether I shall re­cov­er of this dis­ease. 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 unto them, Is it not be­cause there is not a God in Is­rael, that ye go to en­quire of Baalze­bub the god of Ekron? 4 Now there­fore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt sure­ly die. And Eli­jah de­part­ed. 5 And when the mes­sen­gers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back? 6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not be­cause there is not a God in Is­rael, that thou send­est to en­quire of Baalze­bub the god of Ekron? there­fore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt sure­ly die. 7 And he said unto them, What man­ner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? 8 And they an­swered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a gir­dle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Eli­jah the Tish­bite. 9 Then the king sent unto him a cap­tain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, be­hold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. 10 And Eli­jah an­swered and said to the cap­tain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heav­en, and con­sume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heav­en, and con­sumed him and his fifty. 11 Again also he sent unto him an­oth­er cap­tain of fifty with his fifty. And he an­swered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quick­ly. 12 And Eli­jah an­swered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heav­en, and con­sume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heav­en, and con­sumed him and his fifty. 13 And he sent again a cap­tain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third cap­tain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees be­fore Eli­jah, and be­sought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy ser­vants, be pre­cious in thy sight. 14 Be­hold, there came fire down from heav­en, and burnt up the two cap­tains of the for­mer fifties with their fifties: there­fore let my life now be pre­cious in thy sight. 15 And the an­gel of the LORD said unto Eli­jah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king. 16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Foras­much as thou hast sent mes­sen­gers to en­quire of Baalze­bub the god of Ekron, is it not be­cause there is no God in Is­rael to en­quire of his word? there­fore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt sure­ly die. 17 So he died ac­cord­ing to the word of the LORD which Eli­jah had spo­ken. And Je­ho­ram reigned in his stead in the sec­ond year of Je­ho­ram the son of Je­hoshaphat king of Ju­dah; be­cause he had no son. 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?