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[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 1:2 (HCSB)
Ahaziah had fallen through the latticed window of his upper room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers instructing them: "Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will recover from this injury."

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 1:3 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]But the angel[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] said to Elijah[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 1:4 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Therefore this is what the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] says: ‘You will not leave[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’” So Elijah went.[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 1:5 (ESV)
The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”

 

[slave]

(2 Kings 1:6): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)

6 They 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 to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die."

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 1:7): ... International Children’s Bible (ICB)[/h]7 Ahaziah asked them, “What did the man look like who met you and told you this?” .

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 1:8 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]They replied, “He had a garment of hair[/FONT][FONT=&quot] and had a leather belt around his waist.”[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”[/FONT]

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Kings 1:9
New International Version (NIV)

Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!’”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 1:10 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 1:11): ...English Standard Version (ESV)[/h]11 Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king's order, ‘Come down quickly!’”

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 1:12): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]12 “If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 1:13 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] and the lives of these fifty men, your servants!

Please, man of God don't kill me and my men![/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 1:14 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!”[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 1:15 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The angel[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] of him.” So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.[/FONT]

 

[Terrie431]

2 Kings 1:16 (NKJV)

Then he said to him, "Thus says the Lord: 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His Word? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.'"

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 1:17 (NKJV)

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

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 1:18 (NKJV)

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?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 KIngs 2:1 (KJV)
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

 

[Deade]

2 KIngs 2:2 (KJV)

And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 2:3 (NIV)
The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, "Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?" "Yes, I know," Elisha replied, "so be quiet."