2 Kings 1:11
And the king + 1:11 Gr. added and sent. sent a second time to him another captain of fifty, and his fifty. And the captain of fifty spoke to him, and said, O man of God, thus says the king, Come down quickly.
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Numbers 16:41And the children of Israel murmured the next day against Moses and Aaron, saying, You⌃ have killed the people of the Lord.
1 Samuel 22:17And the king said to the footmen that attended on him, Draw near and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand is with David, and because they knew that he + 22:17 Gr. flees. fled, and they did not inform me. But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to fall upon the priest of the Lord.
Isaiah 26:11O Lord, your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not: but when they know they shall be ashamed: jealousy shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.
Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 1:10-18
Fire Called from Heaven by Elijah. ( b. c. 896.) 9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. 10 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. 11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of… Read the whole commentary →