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1 Kings 22
⁴⁶ The remnant of the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.
⁴⁷ Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.
⁴⁸ Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
⁴⁹ Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat was not willing.
⁵⁰ And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place.
⁵¹ Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
⁵² He did evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
⁵³ So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.
2 Kings 1
¹ Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
² And Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and became ill. So he sent messengers and said to them, "Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness."
³ But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, ’Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’