2 Kings 1:2 New English Translation
2 Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders,[a] “Go, ask[b] Baal Zebub,[c] the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”
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- 2 Kings 1:2 tn Heb “and he sent messengers and said to them.”
- 2 Kings 1:2 tn That is, “seek an oracle from.”
- 2 Kings 1:2 sn Apparently Baal Zebub refers to a local manifestation of the god Baal at the Philistine city of Ekron. The name appears to mean “Lord of the Flies,” but it may be a deliberate scribal change of Baal Zebul, “Baal, the Prince,” a title known from the Ugaritic texts. For further discussion and bibliography, see HALOT 261 s.v. זְבוּב בַּעַל and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 25.
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