2 Then A·ha·ziʹah fell down+ through the grating in his roof chamber+ that was in Sa·marʹi·a and got sick. So he sent messengers and said to them: “Go, inquire+ of Baʹal-zeʹbub*+ the god* of Ekʹron+ whether I shall revive from this sickness.”+

16 Then he spoke to him: “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘For the reason that you have sent messengers+ to inquire of Baʹal-zeʹbub the god* of Ekʹron,+ is it because there is no God at all in Israel of whose word to inquire? Therefore as regards the couch upon which you have gone up, you will not come down off it, because you will positively die.’”

2 Jeʹhu+ the son of Ha·naʹni+ the visionary+ now went out before him and said to King Je·hoshʹa·phat: “Is it to the wicked that help is to be given,+ and is it for those hating+ Jehovah that you should have love?+ And for this there is indignation+ against you from the person of Jehovah.