1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
1:1-81 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?
4Now 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?
Go say to Ahaziah's messengers,Don't we have a god of our own?Why are you asking Baalzebub?
This is what God says: "Ahaziah will die."
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.
A man told us to say to you,You're going to die because you asked another god.
7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
What did this man look like?
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.
He was a hairy man with a girdle around his loins.
Ahaziah said,
He is Elijah! [1]
1:9-159Then 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.
They found him sitting on top of a hill and said to him,
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.
If I'm a man of God, let a fire come down from heaven and burn you guys to death.
And a fire came down and burned them to death.
11Again 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.
They found Elijah and the captain said to him,
Oh man of God, the king asks you to 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.
If I'm a man of God, let a fire come down from heaven and burn you guys to death.
And a fire came down and burned them to death. [2]
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.
They found Elijah and the captain fell on his knees and said to him,
Oh man of God, please let me and my fifty soldiers live.
Don't burn us to death like you did the last two groups.
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.
Go with the captain, and don't be afraid.
So Elijah went with the captain to see King Ahaziah.
1:16-1916 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.
Since you sent messengers to ask Baalzebub, you will die.
17So 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.
Jehoram became king of Judah since Ahaziah 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?
Nobody dresses like Elijah!
Elijah shows that he is "a man of God" by burning 102 men to death. He did the job in two shifts of 51 men each.
DWB: God burned 102 men to death for asking Elijah to come down from his hill
DWB: God killed king Ahaziah (of Israel) for asking the wrong god
