16. Elijah told the king, “This is what the Lord says: You sent messengers to seek advice from Baalzebub, the god of Ekron. Is this because ⌊you think⌋ there is no God in Israel whose word you can seek? You will not get up from the bed you are lying on. Instead, you will die there.”
17. So Ahaziah died as the Lord had predicted through Elijah. Joram succeeded him as king because Ahaziah had no son.
18. Isn’t everything else about Ahaziah—the things he did—written in the official records of the kings of Israel?