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2 KING S 1
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is a reflection of the way we would handle royal resources. What we do with what we
have is the only accurate barometer of our hearts.
Key verses in 2 Kings
6:16-17 “Don’t be afraid!” Elisha
told him. “For there are more on
our side than on theirs!” Then
Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his
eyes and let him see!” The Lord
opened the young man’s eyes, and
when he looked up, he saw that the
hillside around Elisha was filled
with horses and chariots of fire.
11:17 Then Jehoiada made a
covenant between the Lord and
the king and the people that they
would be the Lord’s people. He
also made a covenant between the
king and the people.
17:13 Again and again the Lord
had sent his prophets and seers to
warn both Israel and Judah: “Turn
from all your evil ways. Obey my
commands and decrees.”
17:18 Because the Lord was very
angry with Israel, he swept them
away from his presence.
19:15-16 And Hezekiah prayed
this prayer . . . “You alone are
Elijah Confronts King Ahaziah
After King Ahab’s death, the land of Moab
rebelled against Israel.
2 One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell
through the latticework of an upper room at
his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of
Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether
he would recover.
3 But the angel of the Lord told Elijah, who
was from Tishbe, “Go and confront the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is
there no God in Israel? Why are you going to
Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether
the king will recover? 4 Now, therefore, this is
what the Lord says: You will never leave the
bed you are lying on; you will surely die.’” So
Elijah went to deliver the message.
5 When the messengers returned to the king,
he asked them, “Why have you returned so
soon?”
6 They replied, “A man came up to us and
told us to go back to the king and give him this
message. ‘This is what the Lord says: Is there
no God in Israel? Why are you sending men to
Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether
you will recover? Therefore, because you have
done this, you will never leave the bed you are
lying on; you will surely die.’”
7 “What sort of man was he?” the king demanded. “What did he look like?”
8 They replied, “He was a hairy man,* and he
wore a leather belt around his waist.”
“Elijah from Tishbe!” the king exclaimed.
9 Then he sent an army captain with fifty
soldiers to arrest him. They found him sitting
1
1:8 Or He was wearing clothing made of hair. 1:17 Hebrew
Jehoram, a variant spelling of Joram.
God of all the kingdoms of the
earth. You alone created the
heavens and the earth. Bend
down, O Lord, and listen! Open
your eyes, O Lord, and see!”
19:31 “The passionate
commitment of the Lord of
Heaven’s Armies will make
this happen!”
22:2 He did what was pleasing in
the Lord’s sight . . . He did not turn
away from doing what was right.
on top of a hill. The captain said to him, “Man
of God, the king has commanded you to come
down with us.”
10 But Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am
a man of God, let fire come down from heaven
and destroy you and your fifty men!” Then fire
fell from heaven and killed them all.
11 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.”
12 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.
13 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.
14 See how the fire from heaven came down and
destroyed the first two groups. But now please
spare my life!”
15 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.
16 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.”
17 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.