1-2. Soon after King Ahab of Israel died, the country of Moab rebelled against his son King Ahaziah.One day, Ahaziah fell through the wooden slats around the porch on the flat roof of his palace in Samaria, and he was badly injured. So he sent some messengers to the town of Ekron with orders to ask the god Baalzebub if he would get well.
3. About the same time, an angel from the Lord sent Elijah the prophet from Tishbe to say to the king's messengers, “Ahaziah has rejected Israel's own God by sending you to ask Baalzebub about his injury.
4. Tell him that because he has done this, he's on his deathbed!” And Elijah did what he was told.
5. When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he asked, “Why are you back so soon?”
6. “A man met us along the road with a message for you from the Lord,” they answered. “The Lord wants to know why you sent us to ask Baalzebub about your injury and why you don't believe there's a God in Israel. The man also told us that the Lord says you're going to die.”