2 Kings 1:1-3

Contemporary English Version

The Lord Condemns Ahaziah

1 ^1-2Soon after King Ahab of Israel died, the country of Moab rebelled against his son King Ahaziah.^[a]

One day, Ahaziah fell through the wooden slats around the porch on the flat roof of his palace in Samaria, and he was badly injured. So he sent some messengers to the town of Ekron^[b] with orders to ask the god Baalzebub if he would get well.

³About the same time, an angel from the Lord sent Elijah the prophet from Tishbe to say to the king's messengers, “Ahaziah has rejected Israel's own God by sending you to ask Baalzebub about his injury.

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Footnotes

1.1,2 the country … King Ahaziah: The story of Moab's rebellion is in 3.4-27.
1.1,2 Ekron: An important Philistine town about 65 kilometers southwest of Samaria.