2 Kings 1

Gen Z: 2 Kings 1

1So Moab was like, "Nah," and went against Israel after Ahab kicked the bucket.

2Ahaziah totally fell through the ceiling in his fancy room in Samaria and was feeling sus, so he hit up some messengers, saying, "Yo, go ask Baal-zebub if I’ll bounce back from this sickness."

3But the Lord's angel pulled up to Elijah and was like, "Yo, get up and meet the king’s messengers. Why you asking Baal-zebub when there’s a God in Israel?"

4The Lord said, "You ain't getting off that bed, fam. You gonna die for sure." And Elijah was out.

5When the messengers came back, he was like, "Why y’all back so soon?"

6They said, "A dude met us and told us to go back to the king and tell him, 'The Lord said, why you asking Baal-zebub when there’s a God in Israel? You ain't getting off that bed, you gonna die.'"

7He asked them, "What kind of dude was he that told you all this?"

8They said, "He was a hairy dude with a leather belt. It's Elijah the Tishbite, no cap."

9Then the king sent a captain with fifty guys to find him. The captain found him chillin' on a hill and said, "Man of God, the king wants you to come down."

10Elijah was like, "If I’m really a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and roast you and your fifty." And bam, fire came down and toasted them.

11The king sent another captain with fifty, and he was like, "O man of God, the king said to come down fast."

12Elijah was like, "If I’m a man of God, fire come down and roast you and your fifty." And fire from God came down and took them out too.

13Then the third captain rolled up, fell on his knees, and begged, "O man of God, please let me and my fifty live."

14He was like, "Fire came down and burnt the last two captains and their squads, so please don’t let me get roasted."

15The Lord's angel said to Elijah, "Go down with him, don’t be scared." So Elijah got up and went to the king.

16He said, "The Lord says, since you’ve sent messengers to ask Baal-zebub instead of God in Israel, you ain't getting off that bed, you gonna die."

17So he died just like the Lord said through Elijah. And Jehoram took over in his place during the second year of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, 'cause he had no son.

18The rest of Ahaziah’s acts, are they not in the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KJV: 2 Kings 1

1Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

2And 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 Baal–zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

3But 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 Baal–zebub 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.

5And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?

6And 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 Baal–zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

7And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

8And 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.

9Then 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.

10And 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.

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.

12And 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.

13And 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.

14Behold, 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.

15And 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.

16And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal–zebub 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.

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.

18Now 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?

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