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    2 Kings · 18 verses

    2 Kings 1

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    The first captain arrives with an order; the second arrives with the same order; heaven answers both times with fire. Only the third captain notices that this arrangement is not improving.

    A question sent by way of Ekronvv. 1–8

    After Ahab’s death, Moab rebels against Israel, while Ahaziah lies injured after falling through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria. He sends messengers to ask Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether he will recover. Elijah intercepts them with a question about whether there is no God in Israel, and sends them back with the king’s death sentence. The messengers identify Elijah by the wonderfully economical description of a hairy man with a leather belt; Ahaziah identifies him at once.

    Fifty men, twicevv. 9–15

    Ahaziah sends a captain with fifty men to fetch Elijah from the top of a hill. The captain commands him to come down; Elijah answers by calling for fire, and fire duly comes down and consumes the lot. The king repeats the expedition with another captain and another fifty, as though the first heavenly conflagration had been an administrative misunderstanding. It has not. The third captain changes the wording, the posture, and the general policy: he kneels and begs for his life. An angel tells Elijah to go down with him, and at last Elijah does so.

    The word arrives at the bedvv. 16–18

    Before the king, Elijah repeats the charge: Ahaziah has sought Baal-zebub instead of inquiring of the God of Israel. The verdict is unchanged, and Ahaziah dies according to the word Elijah spoke. Since he has no son, Joram succeeds him in the second year of the reign of Joram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah—a sentence containing two Jorams, which is more than the succession strictly needed. The chapter closes by referring the rest of Ahaziah’s acts to the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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    1. 2 Kgs 1:1After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

    2. 2 Kgs 1:2Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”

    3. 2 Kgs 1:3But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’

    4. 2 Kgs 1:4Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” So Elijah departed.

    5. 2 Kgs 1:5When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”

    6. 2 Kgs 1:6They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”

    7. 2 Kgs 1:7The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”

    8. 2 Kgs 1:8“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.

    9. 2 Kgs 1:9Then King Ahaziah sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. So the captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down!’”

    10. 2 Kgs 1:10Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.

    11. 2 Kgs 1:11So the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. And the captain said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down at once!’”

    12. 2 Kgs 1:12Again Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.

    13. 2 Kgs 1:13So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours please be precious in your sight.

    14. 2 Kgs 1:14Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”

    15. 2 Kgs 1:15Then 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.

    16. 2 Kgs 1:16And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”

    17. 2 Kgs 1:17So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah.

    18. 2 Kgs 1:18As for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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    • 10Luke 9:54When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”
    • 10Daniel 3:25“Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”
    • 10Daniel 3:22The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the fiery flames killed the men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
    • 101 Kings 18:36–38At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command.
    • 31 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
    • 10Psalms 106:18Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
    • 10Hebrews 12:29“For our God is a consuming fire.”
    • 12 Samuel 8:2David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.
    • 22 Kings 1:16And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”
    • 3Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
    • 8Matthew 3:4John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
    • 10Job 1:16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
    • 10Numbers 16:28–30Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things, for it was not my own doing:
    • 10Revelation 11:5If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed.
    • 15Isaiah 51:12“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
    • 2Mark 3:22And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”

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