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2 Kings 1:2

AhaziahBaal-zebubEkronSamaria
Temptation

1 After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”

3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’

4 Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” So Elijah departed.

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BSB
Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
KJV
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 Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
WEB
Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness.”
ASV
And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness.
DARBY
And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this disease.
BLB
And Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room that [was] in Samaria, and he was injured. And he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will live from this injury.”
ÅB
Akasja falt ut gjennom gitteret i sin sal i Samaria og ble syk. Da skikket han noen sendebud avsted og sa til dem: Gå og spør Ba'al-Sebub, Ekrons gud, om jeg skal komme meg av denne sykdom!
OTB
Nå skjedde det at Ahazja falt gjennom gitteret i sitt øvre rom i Samaria og skadet seg. Så han sendte budbærere og sa til dem: “Gå og spør Ba'al-Sebub, guden i Ekron, om jeg vil komme meg etter denne skaden.”
B1930
Akasja falt ut gjennem gitteret i sin sal i Samaria og blev syk. Da skikket han nogen sendebud avsted og sa til dem: Gå og spør Ba'al-Sebub, Ekrons gud, om jeg skal komme mig av denne sykdom!

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Cross references

  • 2 Kings 1:16

    And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”

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  • 2 Kings 8:7–10

    Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”

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  • Mark 3:22

    And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”

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  • Matthew 10:25

    It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

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  • Isaiah 37:19

    They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

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  • Luke 11:15

    but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”

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  • 1 Kings 11:33

    For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.

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  • Isaiah 37:12

    Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

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