2 Kings 1
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Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
And 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, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

a lattice The flat roofs of the eastern houses are generally surrounded by a parapet wall breast high; but instead of this, some terraces are guarded with balustrades only, or latticed work. Of the same kind, probably, was the lattice, or net, as the term {shevaca} seems to import, through which Ahaziah fell into the court. This incident proves the necessity of the law for the formation of battlements for roof, (De

2 Kings 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found …

Judges 5:28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the …

Songs 2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he stands behind …

Acts 20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being …

was sick

1 Kings 22:34 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of …

2 Chronicles 21:14,15 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite your people, and …

Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the …

Baal-zebub

2 Kings 1:3,6,16 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go …

Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant …

Matthew 12:24-27 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow does not …

Mark 3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, …

Luke 11:15 But some of them said, He casts out devils through Beelzebub the …

Beelzebub
god

Judges 11:24 Will not you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? …

1 Samuel 5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, …

1 Kings 11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth …

Isaiah 37:12,19 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have …

whether

2 Kings 8:7-10 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; …

1 Kings 14:3 And take with you ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, …

But 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 inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
Now 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.
And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
And 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 inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And 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.

an hairy man That is, he wore a {rough garment}, either made of camel's hair as that of John Baptist, or of a skin, dressed with the {hair on}. Sir J. Chardin informs us, in a MS. note on this place, cited by Mr. Harmer, that the eastern dervishes and fakers are clothed just as Elijah was, with a {hairy} garment, girded with a leathern girdle.

Isaiah 20:2 At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, …

Zechariah 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be …

Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather …

Matthew 11:8 But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? …

Luke 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn …

Revelation 11:3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy …

Then 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.
And 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.

If I be a man

2 Kings 2:23,24 And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the …

Numbers 16:28-30 And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to …

1 Kings 18:36-38 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, …

1 Kings 22:28 And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, the LORD has not …

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and …

Psalm 105:15 Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

Matthew 21:41 They say to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and …

Matthew 23:34-37 Why, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and …

Acts 5:3-10 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to …

let fire. Or, rather, as the original literally imports, and the LXX render () fire shall come down; Elijah's words being simply declarative, and not imprecatory.

Numbers 11:1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD …

Numbers 16:35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred …

Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The …

Psalm 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

Luke 9:54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, …

Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Revelation 11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth, …

consumed

Daniel 3:22,25 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace …

Daniel 6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused …

Acts 12:19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined …

Again 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.
And 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.
And 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.
Behold, 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.
And 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.
And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
So 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.
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?
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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