# Captain of 50 - The Book of 2 Kings

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 4 Dec 2023, 11 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 101. Ahaziah, a sick king, asked a false god for help, and the Lord's prophet, Elijah, warned that he would die for displeasing the Lord. When men were sent to get Elijah, they were consumed by fire. As predicted, Ahaziah died, and Joram inherited the kingdom according to God's plan. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Is it because there is no God in Israel that
[0:03] Speaker 1: you go to inquire of Beelzebub, the God of Ekron? Now, therefore,
[0:09] Speaker 1: the Lord says, You will not come down from the
[0:13] Speaker 1: bed where you have gone up. 2 Kings 1, 3-4
[0:19] Speaker 1: Dear God, thank you that we can come and ask
[0:22] Speaker 1: you questions anytime we want to. You love to hear
[0:26] Speaker 1: from us. You want us to talk to you all
[0:29] Speaker 1: the time. Teach us to never forget the stories we
[0:32] Speaker 1: learn about you. Use them to remind us to love
[0:37] Speaker 1: you with all of our heart. You are so faithful
[0:40] Speaker 1: and good to us. We love you so much. In Jesus'
[0:44] Speaker 1: name I pray.
[0:46] Speaker 2: Amen.
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[1:21] Speaker 2: Captain of 50. In our last story... we learned that
[1:26] Speaker 2: Jehoshaphat decided to seek the Lord before battle, and the
[1:29] Speaker 2: Lord helped set ambushes, which led to a victory for Israel.
[1:34] Speaker 2: But Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, also made a pact with Ahaziah,
[1:39] Speaker 2: king of Israel, which the Lord was not pleased with.
[1:44] Speaker 2: In this story, we will learn about Ahaziah and what
[1:47] Speaker 2: happened when he sought false gods. As inspired by 2 Kings.
[1:57] Speaker 1: Well, hi, it's Julia Sadler here with the Kids Bible
[2:00] Speaker 1: New Year podcast. I'm so glad you're here today. In
[2:03] Speaker 1: this story, we hear what happened to King Ahaziah and
[2:07] Speaker 1: his men when they didn't think it was necessary to
[2:10] Speaker 1: remember all the Lord had done for them. They thought
[2:14] Speaker 1: any old God would do when they were in trouble.
[2:18] Speaker 1: And boy, were they wrong. Let's find out what happened.
[2:25] Speaker 2: Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. Ahaziah
[2:30] Speaker 2: then fell through the balcony of his house in Samaria
[2:33] Speaker 2: and was seriously injured. Ahaziah sent out messengers to ask Beelzebub,
[2:39] Speaker 2: the god of Ekron, Am I going to recover from
[2:42] Speaker 2: this accident? The angel of the Lord said to Elijah,
[2:47] Speaker 2: Stop the messengers of Ahaziah and ask them, Why are
[2:52] Speaker 2: you consulting the god of Ekron? When there is a
[2:55] Speaker 2: God in Israel, and the Lord has already told me,
[2:59] Speaker 2: Ahaziah will not recover from his fall, but he shall die.
[3:04] Speaker 2: The messengers went back. Ahaziah asked, Why are you back
[3:08] Speaker 2: so soon? The messengers told Ahaziah all that Elijah had said.
[3:13] Speaker 2: Ahaziah wondered who this man was. What did he look like?
[3:18] Speaker 2: He was hairy and had a leather belt around his waist.
[3:22] Speaker 3: That's Elijah.
[3:24] Speaker 2: Ahaziah then sent out fifty soldiers to find Elijah. When
[3:29] Speaker 2: they found Elijah, he was sitting at the top of
[3:32] Speaker 2: a hill. The captain said to Elijah, Elijah, man of God,
[3:37] Speaker 2: the king has asked you to come down from that hill.
[3:39] Speaker 2: If I am a man of God, then fire will
[3:43] Speaker 2: come down from heaven and burn you up and your
[3:46] Speaker 2: fifty men. Fire poured out of the sky and took
[3:50] Speaker 2: down the men just as Elijah had said. Ahaziah then
[3:54] Speaker 2: sent out another captain and fifty men to get Elijah.
[3:58] Speaker 2: Second captain said to Elijah, Come down. Elijah answered, If
[4:04] Speaker 2: I am a man of God, then fire will come
[4:06] Speaker 2: down from heaven and burn up you and your fifty men.
[4:11] Speaker 2: Then the fire of God came down again from heaven
[4:14] Speaker 2: and burned up the men. Ahaziah then sent out another
[4:18] Speaker 2: captain and fifty soldiers to get Elijah. The third captain
[4:23] Speaker 2: of the fifty kneeled down in front of Elijah and said,
[4:27] Speaker 2: Man of God, please have mercy on us and let
[4:31] Speaker 2: our lives be precious in your sight. I know that
[4:35] Speaker 2: fire burned up the last men that were here, but please,
[4:38] Speaker 2: man of God, let my life be precious in your sight.
[4:44] Speaker 2: The angel of the Lord told Elijah, You are safe.
[4:48] Speaker 2: Go down with him to see the king. When Elijah
[4:51] Speaker 2: saw Ahaziah, he said, You have sent out messengers to Beelzebub.
[4:57] Speaker 2: You should have asked me first, but since you didn't
[5:00] Speaker 2: ask the God of Israel, you shall surely die. Ahaziah
[5:05] Speaker 2: died just as the Lord had said. Ahaziah didn't have
[5:09] Speaker 2: any children, so his brother Joram became king of Israel.
[5:20] Speaker 1: Today we learned about Ahaziah, another king of Israel. Was
[5:24] Speaker 1: he a good king or an evil king? That's right,
[5:28] Speaker 1: Ahaziah was a bad king. How do we know? Well,
[5:33] Speaker 1: Ahaziah had grown up in Israel, where everyone knew about God.
[5:38] Speaker 1: Ever since the Israelites were about your age, they'd heard
[5:42] Speaker 1: the beautiful story of God's relationship with their people. They
[5:47] Speaker 1: knew about God's promise to Abraham to give him a big, big,
[5:51] Speaker 1: big family and a special home. And they knew about
[5:56] Speaker 1: Abraham's son Isaac and his grandson Jacob and how Jacob
[6:01] Speaker 1: took all his children down to Egypt. And they knew
[6:05] Speaker 1: that Abraham's great, great, great grandchildren who had grown into
[6:11] Speaker 1: a big, big, big family became slaves while they were
[6:16] Speaker 1: down there. But God used Moses to lead the Israelites
[6:20] Speaker 1: through the Red Sea and out of Egypt. They knew
[6:24] Speaker 1: God used Joshua to conquer the promised land so the
[6:29] Speaker 1: Israelites could live in the special home God had promised Abraham.
[6:34] Speaker 1: The Israelites knew King David was a good king who
[6:38] Speaker 1: loved God and wrote beautiful songs about him. And they
[6:42] Speaker 1: knew God had filled King Solomon with wisdom so that
[6:47] Speaker 1: Israel was once one of the happiest kingdoms there ever was.
[6:52] Speaker 1: More than anything, the Israelites knew God keeps his promises.
[6:57] Speaker 1: King Ahaziah knew all these stories too, but he'd also
[7:03] Speaker 1: heard stories about a false god named Baal. Baal didn't
[7:08] Speaker 1: have any beautiful stories about making promises and keeping them,
[7:12] Speaker 1: And he'd never rescued anyone. In fact, to follow Baal,
[7:17] Speaker 1: you had to do mean, terrible, awful things. On top
[7:21] Speaker 1: of it, he wasn't even real. Well, one day, King
[7:25] Speaker 1: Ahaziah was walking around on his balcony. And whoops, he
[7:31] Speaker 1: slipped and fell a long, long way to the ground below. Ouch. Now,
[7:37] Speaker 1: if you were King Ahaziah and you were hurt, Would
[7:41] Speaker 1: you want help from Israel's God, who's proven to be trustworthy?
[7:46] Speaker 1: The God who keeps his promises? Or would you want
[7:49] Speaker 1: help from Baal, the God who was mean and asked
[7:52] Speaker 1: you to do terrible things, and who wasn't even real? Right,
[7:57] Speaker 1: I would want help from the Lord. But King Ahaziah
[8:01] Speaker 1: did not. He didn't love God with his heart. He
[8:05] Speaker 1: had done some very bad things, so he wanted help
[8:09] Speaker 1: from a very bad God, who wasn't even real. So
[8:13] Speaker 1: he sent his servants to go ask Baal, not God,
[8:17] Speaker 1: if he would survive his fall. Well, the angel of
[8:21] Speaker 1: the Lord sent Elijah to stop the king's servants. Elijah
[8:26] Speaker 1: said to them, Ask the king. Is it because there's
[8:30] Speaker 1: no God in Israel that you go to inquire of Beelzebub,
[8:35] Speaker 1: the God of Ekron? You see, Elijah knew that King
[8:39] Speaker 1: Ahaziah knew that he should obey God. And now, King
[8:44] Speaker 1: Ahaziah knew that Elijah knew that God knew that King
[8:49] Speaker 1: Ahaziah knew that he should obey God. Everybody knew. But
[8:55] Speaker 1: even with all that knowing... King Ahaziah didn't want to
[8:59] Speaker 1: obey God, and so God didn't let him get better. Now,
[9:04] Speaker 1: what does that story have to do with you and me?
[9:07] Speaker 1: I'm sad to say there are a lot of people
[9:10] Speaker 1: who are just like King Ahaziah today. They know all
[9:14] Speaker 1: the stories about God. Maybe they go to church or
[9:18] Speaker 1: to Sunday school, but they don't love God with all
[9:20] Speaker 1: their heart. When trouble comes or they get hurt, They
[9:25] Speaker 1: turn to gods who aren't even real for help, not
[9:29] Speaker 1: to the Lord. But Jesus said the most important thing
[9:33] Speaker 1: you can do is to love God with all your heart, mind, soul,
[9:38] Speaker 1: and strength. When you do, you start seeing God's faithfulness everywhere.
[9:44] Speaker 1: And you see that God is writing your life into
[9:47] Speaker 1: a beautiful story where he keeps his promises and gives
[9:51] Speaker 1: you a special home with him too. I'm so happy
[9:55] Speaker 1: you joined me today. Come back next time to find
[9:58] Speaker 1: out what happens when it was time for Elijah to
[10:02] Speaker 1: say goodbye. Remember, the Bible is the best story ever told.
[10:07] Speaker 1: It's God's story to you. And it's all true. Love
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