He said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?
Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”
So he died according to the LORD’s word which Elijah had spoken.
Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because he had no son.