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down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell
from heaven and killed them all.
So the king sent another captain with fifty men. The captain said to him,
“Man of God, the king demands that you come down at once.”
Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven
and destroy you and your fifty men!” And again the fire of God fell from
heaven and killed them all.
Once more the king sent a third captain with fifty men. But this time
the captain went up the hill and fell to his knees before Elijah. He pleaded
with him, “O man of God, please spare my life and the lives of these, your
fifty servants. See how the fire from heaven came down and destroyed the
first two groups. But now please spare my life!”
Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him, and
don’t be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went with him to the king.
And Elijah said to the king, “This is what the Lord says: Why did you
send messengers to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will
recover? Is there no God in Israel to answer your question? Therefore,
because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on;
you will surely die.”
So Ahaziah died, just as the Lord had promised through Elijah. Since
Ahaziah did not have a son to succeed him, his brother Joram became the
next king. This took place in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son
of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.
The rest of the events in Ahaziah’s reign and everything he did are recorded
in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Eli
jah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal. And Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay
here, for the Lord has told me to go to Bethel.”
But Elisha replied, “As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live,
I will never leave you!” So they went down together to Bethel.
The group of prophets from Bethel came to Elisha and asked him,
“Did you know that the Lord is going to take your master away from you
today?”
“Of course I know,” Elisha answered. “But be quiet about it.”
Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go
to Jericho.”
But Elisha replied again, “As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself
live, I will never leave you.” So they went on together to Jericho.