2 Kings 1:10
Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.” And fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty men.
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- If I be a man
- 2 Kings 2:23, 24; Numbers 16:28–30; 1 Kings 18:36–38; 1 Kings 22:28; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Psalm 105:15; Matthew 21:41; Matthew 23:34–37; Acts 5:3–10
- let fire
- Or, rather, as the original literally imports, and the LXX. render, [katabesetai pyr,] fire shall come down; Elijah's words being simply declarative, and not imprecatory.
- Numbers 11:1; Numbers 16:35; Job 1:16; Psalm 106:18; Luke 9:54; Hebrews 12:29; Revelation 11:5
- consumed
- Daniel 3:22, 25; Daniel 6:24; Acts 12:19