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Chapter 1

Ahaziah Consults Baal-zebub. After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

Now Ahaziah had fallen down through the lattice of his upper chamber in Samaria and he was injured, so he sent messengers, saying, “Go to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to inquire as to whether I will recover from this illness or not.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:2 Baal-zebub, “Lord of the flies,” a distorted version of the name of the divinity Baal-zebul (Lord Prince; see Mt 10:25; 12:24).