"Thus says the LORD, '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 shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.'" – 2 Kings 1:16 (ESV) [See also 2 Kings 1:3-4, & 6]
Has God left Israel? That is the question Elijah poses to Ahaziah when Ahaziah petitions Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron. When Ahaziah summons Elijah, God sends fire from heaven destroying two captains and their fifty man groups, demonstrating that, yes, He is still in Israel. The Lord shows that even in the most desperate times, He is there; He has not gone anywhere.
