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They replied, ‘A hairy man with a leather belt round his waist.’(A)

He said, ‘It’s Elijah the Tishbite.’(B)

So King Ahaziah sent a captain with his fifty men(C) to Elijah. When the captain went up to him, he was sitting on top of the hill. He announced, ‘Man of God,(D) the king declares, “Come down! ” ’

10 Elijah responded to the captain, ‘If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.’ Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.(E)

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