The Bible Study Podcast, episode 565. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the

Kings of Israel and Judah with Second Kings Chapter 1.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We are making progress. We are about

three quarters of the way through the stories. We're going to be doing First and Second Samuel and First and

Second Kings. We leave the reading of First and Second Chronicles to you. That is another version of

this same story, which we are not planning on reading at this time.

Second Kings 1, the Lord's judgment on Ahaziah.

After Ihab's death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself,

so he sent messengers saying to them, go and consult Baal Zabub, the god of

Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury. But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah,

the Tishbite, go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, is it because

there is no God in Israel that you're going off to consult baalzabab the god of

Ekron therefore this is what the Lord says you will not leave the bed you are lying on you will

certainly die so Elijah went when the messengers returned to the king he asked them why have you

come back a man came to meet us they they replied, and he said to us,

go back to the king who sent you and tell him, this is what the Lord says. Is it because there is no

God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baalzab, the god of Ekron? Therefore,

you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die. The king asked them,

what kind of man was it who

came to meet you and told you this? They replied, he had a garment of hair and had a leather belt

around his waist. The king said, that was Elijah, the Tishbite. Then he sent to Elijah a captain with

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