2 Kings 1:3-17

3But the angel of the Lord said to 1Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of 2Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’ 4Now therefore thus says the Lord, ‘34You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” Then Elijah departed.

5When the messengers returned to him he said to them, “5Why have you 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 say to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending 6to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore 7you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”’” 7He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?” 8They 8answered him, “9He was a hairy man with a leather girdle 10bound about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

9Then the king 11sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And 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 says, ‘Come down.’” 10Elijah replied to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, 12let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” 13Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

11So he again sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he said to him, “O man of God, thus says the king, ‘Come down quickly.’” 12Elijah replied to them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

13So he 14again sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. When the third captain of fifty went up, he came and bowed down on his knees before Elijah, and begged him and said to him, “O man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight. 14Behold fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my 15life be precious in your sight.” 1516The angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him; 17do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king. 16Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have sent messengers 18to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron--is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word?--therefore 19you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”

17So Ahaziah died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. And because he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place 20in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.