Wednesday Bible Study: Let the massacres begin

2 Kings doesn ' t really need any introduction, because it ' s just the same book we ' ve already been reading. (The division was made in the middle ages.) However, I will note that for a while anyway the pace of God murdering people for trivial reasons seems to pick up. In Ch. 1, he murders 102 men, in two shifts of 51, for asking Elijah to come down from a hill. On the third try, the captain asks more obsequiously and now it ' s okay. As a matter of fact, Elijah wanted to come down from the hill all along so he could convey the bad news to Ahazi ' ah that he was about to kick the bucket. So killing the 102 guys was just for show. Wait till you see what happens in the next chapter!1 After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.2 Now Ahazi ′ah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samar′ia, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Ba′al-ze′bub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.”3 But the angel of theLord said to Eli ′jah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samar′ia, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Ba′al-ze′bub, the god of Ekron?’4 Now therefore thus says theLord, ‘You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.’” So Eli′jah went.5 The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”6&nb...
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