2 Kings Chapter 1    

¹Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
  ²And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will live through this injury.”
 

³But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and tell them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
  ⁴Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: You will not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but will die, yes, die.’” And Elijah departed.
 

⁵And the messengers returned to him and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”
 

⁶They said to him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you and tell him, This is what Yahweh says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed on which you have gone up, but die, yes, die.’”
 

⁷He said to them, “What sort of man was he who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
 

⁸They answered him, “He was a hairy man and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
 

⁹Then the king sent to him a commander of 50 with his unit of 50. He went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, “O man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”
 

¹⁰Elijah answered and said to the commander of 50, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your 50!” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his 50.
 

¹¹Again he sent to him another commander of 50 and his 50. And he spoke to him: “O man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down quickly!’”
 

¹²Elijah answered and said to them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your 50!” And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his 50.
 

¹³Again he sent the commander of a third 50 with his 50. The third commander of 50 went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and begged him, and said to him, “O man of God, please let my life and the life of these 50 your servants be valuable in your eyes.
  ¹⁴Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former commanders of 50 with their fifties. But now let my life be valuable in your eyes.”
 

¹⁵Then an angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king.
 

¹⁶And he said to him, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘Because 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 you will not come down from the bed on which you have gone up, but will die, yes, die.’”
 

¹⁷So he died according to the word of Yahweh that Elijah had spoken. And because he had no son, Jehoram his brother began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,.
  ¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?