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          DASV: 2 Kings 1    

1 Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2 Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in
Samaria and hurt himself. He sent messengers, and said to them,
"Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will
recover from this injury."

3 Now the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up,
go to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and ask them,
'Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going
to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?'
4 Now therefore this is what the LORD says, 'You will not leave
the bed on which you are confined, but you will surely die.'"
So Elijah went and did it.

5 When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why
have you returned?"
6 They replied, "A man came up to us, and told 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 to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore
you will not leave the bed on which you are confined,
but you will surely die.'"'"
7 The king asked them, "What did the man look like who came up
to you and told you these things?"
8 They answered, "He was a hairy man, with a leather belt around
his waist." He surmised, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."

9 So the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty men to him.
He went up to Elijah who was sitting on the top of the hill
and told him, "O man of God, the king has ordered, 'Come
down here.'"
10 Elijah answered the captain of fifty, "If I am indeed a man
of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and
your fifty men." Then fire came down from heaven, and consumed
him and his fifty.
11 Again Ahaziah sent to him another captain of fifty with his
fifty men. He said to him, "O man of God, this is what the king
has ordered, 'Come down quickly.'"
12 Elijah replied, "If I am indeed a man of God, let fire come
down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty men." Then the
fire from God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his
fifty.
13 Again he sent a third captain with his fifty men. The third
captain of fifty went up and fell on his knees before Elijah,
and begged him, "O man of God, I beg you, let my life, and
the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in
your sight.
14 Look, fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two
previous captains of fifty with their fifties; but now may
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 Elijah said to the king, "This is what the LORD says, 'Why
did you send 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 come down from the
bed on which you are confined, but you will surely die.'"

17 So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that
Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in
the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.
18 Now the rest of the acts that Ahaziah did, are they not
written in the scroll of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?

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