1And Moab rebelled against Israel after Akhab was dead. 2And Ekhazyah fell from a balcony of the high place that is in Samaria and he became ill, and he sent Messengers and said to them: “Go inquire of Beelzebub, god of Aqroon, if I will recover health from this sickness.” 3And The Angel of LORD JEHOVAH said to Elyah, who was from Thesbe: “Arise! Go down to meet the Messengers of the King of Samaria, and say to them: ‘Is it for lack of a God in Israel you are going to inquire of Beelzebub, god of Aqroon? 4Because of this, thus says LORD JEHOVAH: the bed upon which you went up, you shall not go down from it, but you shall surely die!” And Elyah went on.

5And the Messengers returned to Ekhazyah, and Ekhazyah said to them: “Why have you returned?” 6They said to him: “One man came up to meet us and said to us: ‘Return! Go to the man who sent you and say to him, ‘Is it for lack of a God in Israel you are going to inquire of Beelzebub, god of Aqroon? Because of this, thus says LORD JEHOVAH: the bed upon which you went up, you shall not go down from it, but you shall surely die!’” 7He said to them: “What was the appearance of the man who came up to meet you and said these words to you?” 8They were saying to him: “A hairy man and a belt of leather was bound around his waist.” He said to them, “He is Elyah who is from Thesbe.”

9And he sent a Captain of fifty against him and fifty of his people, and they went up to him, and he sat on the top of a mountain, and he said to him: “Prophet of God! The King says, ‘come down!’” 10And Elyah answered and said to the Captain of fifty: “If I am the Prophet of God, fire shall come down from Heaven and shall consume you yourself and the fifty who are with you!” And fire came down from Heaven and consumed him and the fifty who were with him.

11And he turned and he sent against him a Captain of fifty others and the fifty who were with him, and he answered and said to him: “Prophet of God: Thus says the King, ‘come down quickly!’” 12And Elyah answered and said to him: “If I am a Prophet of God, fire shall come down from Heaven and shall consume you yourself and the fifty who are with you!” And fire came down from Heaven and consumed him and the fifty who were with him.

13And he sent against him a Captain of fifty a third time, and the fifty who were with him, and the Captain of fifty came up and he bowed on his knees before Elyah, and he begged him and said to him: “Prophet of God, let my life and the life of your servants be precious, these fifty who stand before you! 14Behold, fire came down from Heaven and consumed two Captains of fifty and the fifty each that were with them, and now, let my life be precious in your eyes!” 15And The Angel of LORD JEHOVAH said to Elyah: “Go down with him and do not be afraid of him.” And he arose and went down with him to the King. 16And he said to him: “Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: because you sent Messengers to inquire of Beelzebub the god of Aqroon, was it from the lack of a God in Israel to inquire of his word? Because of this, the bed to which you ascended, you will not go down from it, but you shall certainly die!”

17And he died, according to the word of LORD JEHOVAH that Elyah spoke, and Yoram his brother became king after him in the year two of Yoram, son of Yushaphat, King of Yehuda, because he had no son. 18And the rest of the words of Ekhazyah and everything that he did, behold, are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.