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1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. 2 During the rebellion King Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upstairs room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers [to Ekron]. He had told them, |Go ask Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, if I will recover from this injury.| 3 Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah from Tishbe, |Meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and ask them, 'Do you seek advice from Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, because [you think] there is no God in Israel? 4 This is what the LORD says: You will not get up from the bed you are lying on. Instead, you will die there.' | Then Elijah left. 5 When the messengers returned, the king asked them, |Why have you come back so soon?| 6 They told him that a man came to meet them and said to them, |Go back to the king who sent you. Tell him, 'This is what the LORD says: Do you send messengers to seek advice from Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, because [you think] there is no God in Israel? You will not get up from the bed you are lying on. Instead, you will die there.'| 7 The king asked them, |What was the man like who told you this?| 8 They replied, |He was hairy and had a leather belt around his waist.| |That's Elijah from Tishbe,| the king answered. 2 Kings 1:1-8, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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