1 Moab rebels 2-4 Ahaziah, sending to baal-zebub, hath his judgement by Elijah 5-12 Elijah twice brings fire from heaven upon them whom Ahaziah sent to apprehend him. 13-16 He pities the third captain, and, encouraged by an angel, tells the king of his death 17-18 Jehoram succeeds Ahaziah

Moab Nu 24:7 2Sa 8:2 1Ch 18:2 Ps 60:8

after the 2Ki 18:2 Ps 60:8

after the 2Ki 3:4,5 8:20,22

2 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, enquire 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 22:8) which God graciously dictated from Sinai, which furnishes a beautiful example of his paternal care and goodness; for the terrace was a place where many offices of the family were performed, and business frequently transacted. Jud 5:28 So 2:9 Ac 20:9

was sick 1Ki 22:34 2Ch 21:14,15 Job 31:3

Baal-zebub 2Ki 1:3,6,16 Mt 10:25 12:24-27 Mr 3:22 Lu 11:15

Beelzebub
god Jud 11:24 1Sa 5:10 1Ki 11:33 Isa 37:12,19

whether 2Ki 8:7-10 1Ki 14:3

3 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 enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?

angel 2Ki 1:15 1Ki 19:5,7 Ac 8:26 12:7-11

Elijah 2Ki 1:8 1Ki 17:1

Arise 1Ki 18:1

it 2Ki 1:6,16 5:8,15 1Sa 17:46 1Ki 18:36 Ps 76:1

ye go Jer 2:11-13 Jon 2:8 Mr 3:22

4 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.

Thou shalt, etc. [heb] The bed whither thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it.

but shalt Ge 2:17 3:4 Nu 26:65 1Sa 28:19 1Ki 14:12 Pr 11:19 14:32 Eze 18:4

5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?

6 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 enquire 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.

Thus saith Isa 41:22,23

therefore 2Ki 1:3,4 1Ch 10:13,14 Ps 16:4

7 And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

What manner of man was he? [heb] What was the manner of the man? Jud 8:18 1Sa 28:14

8 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. Isa 20:2 Zec 13:4 Mt 3:4 11:8 Lu 1:17 Re 11:3

9 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.

sent unto 2Ki 6:13,14 1Ki 18:4,10 19:2 22:8,26,27 Mt 14:3

he sat 1Ki 18:42 Lu 6:11,12

Thou man Am 7:12 Mt 26:68 27:29,41-43 Mr 15:29,32 Heb 11:36

10 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 2Ki 2:23,24 Nu 16:28-30 1Ki 18:36-38 22:28 2Ch 36:16 Ps 105:15 Mt 21:41 23:34-37 Ac 5:3-10

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. Nu 11:1 16:35 Job 1:16 Ps 106:18 Lu 9:54 Heb 12:29 Re 11:5

consumed Da 3:22,25 6:24 Ac 12:19

11 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.

Again Nu 16:41 1Sa 6:9 Isa 26:11 Jer 5:3 Joh 18:5-12 Ac 4:16,17

O man 1Sa 22:17-19 Pr 29:12 Isa 32:7 Mt 2:16 Lu 22:63,64

12 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.

2Ki 1:9,10

13 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.

he sent again Job 15:25,26 Pr 27:22 Ec 9:3 Isa 1:5

fell on [heb] bowed Isa 66:2

besought Ex 11:8 Nu 12:11-13 1Ki 13:6 Isa 60:14 Re 3:9

O man of God Ps 102:17 Jas 4:7

14 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.

behold 2Ki 1:10,11

let my life 1Sa 26:21,24 Ps 49:8 72:14 116:15 Pr 6:26 Mt 16:25,26 Ac 20:24

15 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.

be not afraid of him Ge 15:1 1Ki 18:15 Ps 27:1 Isa 51:12 Jer 1:17 15:20 Eze 2:6 Mt 10:28 Heb 11:27

16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

Forasmuch 2Ki 1:3,4,6 Ex 4:22,23 1Ki 14:6-13 21:18-24 22:28

Baal-zebub Literally, `the lord of flies;' or, as the LXX render, Baal the fly god. See note on ex 8:24 Ex 8:24

on which thou are gone up In the East there is usually at the end of each chamber a little gallery, raised three or four feet above the floor, with a balustrade in front, to which they go up a few steps: here they place their beds; an allusion to which situation is involved in this declaration of Elijah's, and frequently referred to in the Sacred Scriptures Ge 49:4 Ps 132:3

17 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.

Jehoram As it is said in ch 3:1, that he began his reign in the {eighteenth of Jehoshaphat,} it is supposed that Jehoshaphat admitted his son Jehoram to reign with him eight or nine years before his death. `The second year that Jehoram was Prorex, and the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat.'

in the second 2Ki 3:1 8:16,17 1Ki 22:51

18 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?

in the book 1Ki 14:19 22:39