text: Elijah continues now from Ahab to an encounter with Ahaziah .
simplified: The king recognized Elijah by that description ( because Elijah had met Ahab , his father , many times ) , and sent a captain and fifty men to get him . Maybe Ahaziah thought , like many people at that time who did not believe in God , that if he killed Elijah or forced him to change the curse , it would not happen .