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2 Kings 1 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Ahaziah’s Messengers Meet Elijah

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 -

Now Moab broke with Israel after the death of Ahab.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - And Ahaziah fell through the window 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.”
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?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:4 - “Now therefore, this is what the LORD says: ‘[fn]You will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die.’” Then Elijah departed.
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When the messengers returned to [fn]Ahaziah, he said to them, “[fn]Why have you returned?”

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, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore [fn]you will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die.’”’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:7 - Then he said to them, “What [fn]did the man look like, who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - And they said to him, “He was a hairy man with a leather [fn]belt worn around his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
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Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, “You man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - But Elijah replied to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.
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So the king again sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he said to him, “You man of God, this is what the king says: ‘Come down quickly!’”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - But Elijah replied to them, “If I am a man of God, may 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 men.
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So the king again sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty men. 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, “You man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.

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.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:15 - And 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - Then he said to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Since 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 will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die.’”

Jehoram Reigns over Israel

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:17 -

So Ahaziah died in accordance with the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - Now as for 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?
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit The bed where you went up, you will not come down from it
Lit him
Lit What is this that you have returned?
See note v 4
Lit was the appearance of
Lit loincloth
Lit soul
See note v 4
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