2 Kings 1:16-18

Contemporary English Version

¹⁶When Elijah arrived, he told Ahaziah, “The Lord wants to know why you sent messengers to Ekron to ask Baalzebub about your injury. Don't you believe there's a God in Israel? Ahaziah, because you did that, the Lord says you will die.”

¹⁷Ahaziah died, just as the Lord had said. But since Ahaziah had no sons, Joram^[a] his brother^[b] then became king. This happened in the second year that Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat was king of Judah.^[c] ¹⁸Everything else Ahaziah did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Israel.

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Footnotes

1.17 Joram: The Hebrew text has “Jehoram,” another spelling of the name.
1.17 his brother: Some ancient translations (see also 3.1); these words are not in the Hebrew text.
1.17 This happened … Judah: According to 3.1, this was also the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat's rule in Judah. In biblical times, a father and son would sometimes rule as kings at the same time. This way, when the father died, the son would already have control of the kingdom (see also 8.16).