So King Ahaziah sent a captain with his fifty men(A) to Elijah. When the captain went up to him, he was sitting on top of the hill. He announced, “Man of God,(B) 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.(C)

11 So the king sent another captain with his fifty men to Elijah. He took in the situation[a] and announced, “Man of God, this is what the king says: ‘Come down immediately!’”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:11 Lit He answered

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