Elijah continues teaching the people of the land that God alone is to be served and feared. Ahaziah learns this after consulting with the prophets of Baal regarding an illness he faced. Elijah pronounced that because he did not seek an answer from God, that the illness would indeed be fatal. And it was.
Elijah's life comes to a conclusion. Elisha, his successor, is granted a double portion of the spirit in which this great prophet ministered. He immediately and conclusively displays this blessing by healing a spring that had been causing great illness and calamity in the land.
The southern neighbor to Judah, Moab, rebels and seeks to attack the nation of Israel. A coalition between Judah, Israel and Edom is formed and God displays His power once again by providing an overwhelming victory for His people.
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