2 Kings 22:4
22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down
the silver that has been brought by the people to the
Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.
2 Kings 22:2
22:2 He did what the
Lord approved
and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;
he did not deviate to the right or the left.
2 Kings 1:4-11
1:4 Therefore this is what the
Lord says, “You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!”’” So Elijah went on his way.
1:5 When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
1:6 They replied, “A man came up to meet us. He told us, “Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.”’”
1:7 The king asked them, “Describe the appearance of this man who came up to meet you and told you these things.”
1:8 They replied, “He was a hairy man and had a leather belt tied around his waist.” The king said, “He is Elijah the Tishbite.”
1:9 The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him, “Prophet, the king says, ‘Come down!’”
1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
1:11 The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’”
2 Kings 1:2
1:2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria
and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders,
“Go, ask
Baal Zebub,
the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”