¹⁶ and he said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel from whom to inquire his word?—therefore the bed upon which you went, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.’”

Epitaph for Ahaziah

¹⁷ So he died, according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken, and Joram became king in his place in the second year of Joram the son of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, because he had no son. ¹⁸ The remainder of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?