1 Once Ahab was dead, Moab revolted against Israel.
2 Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and was injured. He sent off messengers, telling them, "Go and consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to find out whether I will get over this injury."
3 But the angel of the LORD told Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up, go and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, 'Is there no God in Israel, that you are going off to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?'
4 So this is what the LORD says: 'From the bed you have climbed into you will not get up; you will certainly die.'" And Elijah left.
5 The messengers came back to the king, and he asked them, "Why have you returned?"
6 They told him, "A man came up to meet us and said, 'Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, "This is what the LORD says: Is there no God in Israel, that you are sending men to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For that reason, from the bed you have climbed into you will not get up; you will certainly die."'"
7 He asked them, "What kind of man was it who came up to meet you and told you this?"
8 "A hairy man," they answered him, "with a leather belt fastened around his waist." "That was Elijah the Tishbite," he said.
9 The king sent a captain of fifty to him with his fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on top of a hill, and told him, "Man of God, the king orders you to come down."
10 Elijah answered the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and devour you and your fifty!" And fire came down from heaven and devoured him and his fifty.
11 The king sent him another captain of fifty with his fifty. This one spoke up: "Man of God, this is the king's order: come down at once!"
12 Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and devour you and your fifty!" And the fire of God came down from heaven and devoured him and his fifty.
13 Once more the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty, a third one. This third captain of fifty went up, fell on his knees in front of Elijah and begged him, "Man of God, please value my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours.
14 Fire has come down from heaven and devoured the two earlier captains of fifty and their fifties, but now please value my life."
15 The angel of the LORD told Elijah, "Go down with him; do not be afraid of him." So he got up and went down with him to the king.
16 He told the king, "This is what the LORD says: 'You sent messengers to consult Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron. Is it because there is no God in Israel whose word you could seek? For that reason, from the bed you have climbed into you will not get up; you will certainly die.'"
17 And he died, just as the LORD had said through Elijah. Since he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place, in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.
18 As for the rest of the deeds of Ahaziah, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?