2 Kings 1:2
Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness.”
And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- a lattice
- The flat roofs of the eastern houses are generally surrounded by a parapet wall breast high; but instead of this, some terraces are guarded with balustrades only, or latticed work. Of the same kind, probably, was the lattice, or net, as the term {shevacha} seems to import, through which Ahaziah fell into the court. This incident proves the necessity of the law for the formation of battlements for roof, (De 22:8,) which God graciously dictated from Sinai, which furnishes a beautiful example of his paternal care and goodness; for the terrace was a place where many offices of the family were performed, and business frequently transacted.
- Judges 5:28; Song of Songs 2:9; Acts 20:9
- was sick
- 1 Kings 22:34; 2 Chronicles 21:14, 15; Job 31:3
- Baal-zebub
- 2 Kings 1:3, 6, 16; Matthew 10:25; Matthew 12:24–27; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15
- Beelzebub
- god.
- Judges 11:24; 1 Samuel 5:10; 1 Kings 11:33; Isaiah 37:12, 19
- whether
- 2 Kings 8:7–10; 1 Kings 14:3