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Second Book of Kings, Chapter 1

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Chapter 1 of 2 Kings—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ And Moʹab1 began to revolt2 against Israel after the death of Aʹhab.3
  2. ¶ Then A·ha·ziʹah fell down4 through the grating in his roof chamber5 that was in Sa·marʹi·a and got sick. So he sent messengers and said to them: “Go, inquire6 of Baʹal-zeʹbub[a]7 the god[b] of Ekʹron8 whether I shall revive from this sickness.”9
  3. As for the angel10 of Jehovah, he spoke to E·liʹjah[c] the Tishʹbite:11 “Rise up, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Sa·marʹi·a and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God12 at all in Israel that YOU are going to inquire of Baʹal-zeʹbub the god of Ekʹron?
  4. So therefore this is what Jehovah has said: “As regards the couch upon which you have gone up, you will not come down off it, because you will positively die.”’”13 With that E·liʹjah went off.
  5. ¶ When the messengers came back to him, he immediately said to them: “Why is it that YOU have come back?”
  6. So they said to him: “There was a man that came up to meet us, and he proceeded to say to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent YOU, and YOU must speak to him: “This is what Jehovah has said,14 ‘Is it because there is no God at all in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baʹal-zeʹbub the god of Ekʹron? Therefore, as regards the couch upon which you have gone up, you will not come down off it, because you will positively die.’”’”15
  7. At this he spoke to them: “What was the appearance of the man that came up to meet YOU and then spoke these words to YOU?”
  8. So they said to him: “A man possessing a hair garment,[d]16 with a leather belt girded about his loins.”17 Immediately he said: “It was E·liʹjah the Tishʹbite.”
  9. ¶ And he proceeded to send to him a chief[e] of fifty with his fifty.18 When he went up to him, there he was sitting upon the top of the mountain. He now spoke to him: “Man of the [true] God,[f]19 the king himself has spoken, ‘Do come down.’”
  10. But E·liʹjah answered and spoke to the chief of the fifty: “Well, if I am a man of God,[g] let fire20 come down from the heavens and eat up you and your fifty.” And fire came descending from the heavens and went eating up him and his fifty.21
  11. ¶ So he sent again to him another chief of fifty with his fifty.22 In turn he answered and spoke to him: “Man of the [true] God, this is what the king has said, ‘Do come down quickly.’”23
  12. But E·liʹjah answered and spoke to them: “If I am a man of the [true] God, let fire come down from the heavens and eat up you and your fifty.” And fire of God came descending from the heavens and went eating up him and his fifty.
  13. ¶ And he went sending again a third chief of fifty and his fifty.24 But the third chief of fifty went up and came and bent down upon his knees25 in front of E·liʹjah[h] and began to implore26 favor of him and speak to him: “Man of the [true] God, please let my soul27 and the soul of these fifty servants of yours be precious28 in your eyes.
  14. Here fire came down from the heavens and went eating up29 the two former chiefs of fifty and their fifties, but now let my soul be precious in your eyes.”
  15. ¶ At that the angel of Jehovah spoke to E·liʹjah: “Go down with him. Do not be afraid because of him.”30 So he rose and went down with him to the king.
  16. Then he spoke to him: “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘For the reason that you have sent messengers31 to inquire of Baʹal-zeʹbub the god[i] of Ekʹron,32 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.’”
  17. And he gradually died,33 according to the word34 of Jehovah that E·liʹjah had spoken; and Je·hoʹram[j]35 began to reign in place of him, in the second year of Je·hoʹram36 the son of Je·hoshʹa·phat the king of Judah, because he had not come to have a son.
  18. ¶ As for the rest of A·ha·ziʹah’s37 things that he did, are they not written in the book38 of the affairs of the days of the kings of Israel?

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “Of Baal-zebub.” Heb., beVaʹʽal Zevuvʹ, meaning “Owner (Lord) of Flies.” Compare Mt 12:24 ftn.
  2. ^ “The god of.” Heb., ʼelo·hehʹ, pl. of ʼelohʹah, to denote excellence, applied to Baal-zebub. Compare Jg 16:23 ftn.
  3. ^ “Elijah.” Heb., ʼE·li·yahʹ, meaning “My God Is Jah”; LXXBagster(Gr.), E·li·ouʹ; Vgc(Lat.), E·liʹam. Compare vs 13 ftn.
  4. ^ Lit., “A man an owner [Heb., baʹʽal] of hair.”
  5. ^ “Chief of.” Heb., sar; Lat., prinʹci·pem.
  6. ^ “Man of the [true] God.” Heb., ʼish ha·ʼElo·himʹ. See App 1F.
  7. ^ “Man of God.” Heb., ʼish ʼElo·himʹ.
  8. ^ Meaning “My God Is Jehovah.” Heb., ʼE·li·yaʹhu, as in the rest of the account through 10:17 and in 2Ch 21:12.
  9. ^ “The god of.” Heb., ʼelo·hehʹ. See vs 2 ftn, “God.”
  10. ^ Meaning “Jehovah Is High (Exalted).” Heb., Yehoh·ramʹ; LXXLSyVg, “Jehoram his brother.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ge 19:37; Nu 24:17; Ps 60:8
  2. ^ 2Ki 3:5; 8:22
  3. ^ 2Ki 3:5
  4. ^ Ec 9:11
  5. ^ Jg 3:20; 1Ki 17:19
  6. ^ Ex 20:3; 1Sa 15:23
  7. ^ 2Ki 1:16
  8. ^ Jos 13:3; 1Sa 5:10
  9. ^ 1Sa 28:7; 1Ki 14:3; 2Ki 8:8
  10. ^ 2Ki 1:15; Ac 8:26
  11. ^ 1Ki 17:1
  12. ^ 1Ki 18:36; Is 8:19; Je 2:11; Jon 2:8
  13. ^ Pr 11:19; 14:32; Ec 8:13
  14. ^ Is 46:10; 55:11
  15. ^ 1Ch 10:14
  16. ^ 1Ki 19:19; Zc 13:4
  17. ^ Mt 3:4; Heb 11:37
  18. ^ Ps 105:15
  19. ^ De 33:1; 1Sa 2:27
  20. ^ Nu 11:1; 16:35; Ps 106:18; Lu 9:54; Jd 7
  21. ^ Pr 13:17
  22. ^ Is 26:11
  23. ^ Ps 140:11; Pr 22:3
  24. ^ Pr 27:22; Je 5:3
  25. ^ Mt 17:14; Mr 1:40; 10:17
  26. ^ Is 60:14
  27. ^ Ge 2:7
  28. ^ 1Sa 26:21; Ps 72:14
  29. ^ 2Ki 1:10
  30. ^ Ps 27:1; Je 1:17; Eze 2:6
  31. ^ 2Ki 1:3
  32. ^ Jos 13:3
  33. ^ Pr 13:21
  34. ^ Is 44:26
  35. ^ 2Ki 3:1; 9:22
  36. ^ 2Ki 8:16
  37. ^ 1Ki 22:51
  38. ^ 1Ki 14:19; 22:39

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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