Moab annulled allegiance with Israel after the dying of Ahab.
Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper room, in Samaria, and was infirm. And he sent for messengers, and he said to them, Go and ask of Baal the god of Ekron if I shall live through And they went to ask.
an angel of the spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Rise up, go to meet the messengers of Ahaziah king of Samaria! and say to them, Is it on account of the not being a God in Israel you go to ask of Baal the god of Ekron?
this thus says the The bed upon which you ascended upon it, you shall not go from it, for to death you shall die. And Elijah went, and spoke to them.
to him. And he said to them, Why is it you have returned?
they said to him, A man ascended to meet us, and he said to us, Go, return to the king, the one sending you, and say to him! Thus says the Is it because there is no God in Israel you go to seek anxiously by Baal the god of Ekron? On account of this, the bed upon which you ascended upon it, you shall not go from it, for to death you shall die.
What was distinguishing mark of the man ascending to meet you, and speaking to you these words?
they said to him, and a belt made of skin was girded upon his loin. And he said,
he sent to him a commander of fifty, and his fifty. And he ascended to him. And he sat upon the top of the mountain. And to him, O man of God, the king calls you, come down!
Elijah answered and said to the commander of fifty, And if from heaven and shall devour you and your fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and devoured him and his fifty.
and he sent to him another commander of fifty, and his fifty. And and spoke to him, and said, O man of God, thus says the king, Quickly come down!
Elijah answered and said to him, If from heaven, and shall devour you and your fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and devoured him and his fifty.
again to send and his fifty. And and he bent upon his knees in front of Elijah, and beseeched him, and spoke to him, and said, O man of God, value indeed my life, and the lives of your servants — these fifty, in your eyes!
there came down fire from the heaven, and devoured the and their fifties. And now value indeed the life of your servants in your eyes!
to Elijah, Go down with him, you should not fear from their presence. And Elijah rose up and went down with them to the king.
he said to him, Thus says the Because you sent messengers to ask to Baal the god of Ekron, as if there was not a God in Israel to ask the word of him, on account of this the bed upon which you ascended upon it, you shall not go down from it, for in death you shall die.
he died according to the saying of the which Elijah spoke. And instead of him, (for there was no son to him) in the of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah.
the rest of the words of Ahaziah, as many things he did, behold are these written in the of the of the days of the kings of Israel?