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drb @2Kings:1:1 @And Moab rebelled against Israel , after the death of Achab . drb @2Kings:1:2 @And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber which he had in Samaria , and was sick : and he sent messengers , saying to them : Go , consult Beelzebub , the god of Accaron , whether I shall recover of this my illness . drb @2Kings:1:3 @And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias the Thesbite , saying : Arise , and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria , and say to them : Is there not a God in Israel , that ye go to consult Beelzebub the god of Accaron ? drb @2Kings:1:4 @Wherefore thus saith the Lord : From the bed , on which thou art gone up , thou shalt not come down , but thou shalt surely die . And Elias went away . drb @2Kings:1:5 @And the messengers turned back to Ochozias . And he said to them : Why are you come back ? drb @2Kings:1:6 @But they answered him : A man met us , and said to us : Go , and return to the king , that sent you , and you shall say to him : Thus saith the Lord : Is it because there was no God in Israel that thou sendest to Beelzebub the god of Accaron ? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed , on which thou art gone up , but then shalt surely die . drb @2Kings:1:7 @And he said to them : What manner of man was he who met you , and spoke these words ? drb @2Kings:1:8 @But they said : A hairy man with a girdle of leather about his loins . And he said : It is Elias the Thesbite . drb @2Kings:1:9 @And he sent to him a captain of fifty , and the fifty men that were under him . And he went up to him , and as he was sitting on the top of a hill , said to him : Man of God , the king hath commanded that thou come down . drb @2Kings:1:10 @And Elias answering , said to the captain of fifty : If I be a man of God , let fire come down from heaven , and consume thee , and thy fifty . And there came down fire from heaven , and consumed him , and the fifty that were with him . drb @2Kings:1:11 @And again he sent to him another captain of fifty men , and his fifty with him . And he said to him : Man of God , thus saith the king : Make haste and come down . drb @2Kings:1:12 @Elias answering , said : If I be a man of God , let fire come down from heaven , and consume thee and thy fifty . And fire came down from heaven , and consumed him and his fifty . drb @2Kings:1:13 @Again he sent a third captain of fifty men , and the fifty that were with him . And when he was come , he fell upon his knees , before Elias , and besought him and said : Man of God , despise not my life , and the lives of thy servants that are with me . drb @2Kings:1:14 @Behold fire came down from heaven , and consumed the two first captains of fifty men , and the fifties that were with them : but now I beseech thee to spare my life . drb @2Kings:1:15 @And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias , saying : Go down with him , fear not . He arose therefore , and went down with him to the king , drb @2Kings:1:16 @And said to him : Thus saith the Lord : Because thou hast sent messengers to consult Beelzebub the god of Accaron , as though there were not a God in Israel , of whom thou mightest inquire the word ; therefore from the bed on which thou art gone up , thou shalt not come down , but thou shalt surely die . drb @2Kings:1:17 @So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elias spoke , and Joram his brother reigned in his stead , in the second year of Joram the son of Josaphat king of Juda : because he had no son . drb @2Kings:1:18 @But the rest of the acts of Ochozias which he did , are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel ?

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