2 Kings 1:8-10

The Message

⁸ “Shaggy,” they said, “and wearing a leather belt.”

He said, “That has to be Elijah the Tishbite!”

⁹ The king sent a captain with fifty men to Elijah. Meanwhile Elijah was sitting, big as life, on top of a hill. The captain said, “O Holy Man! King’s orders: Come down!”

¹⁰ Elijah answered the captain of the fifty, “If it’s true that I’m a ‘holy man,’ lightning strike you and your fifty men!” Out of the blue lightning struck and incinerated the captain and his fifty.