¹⁰ And Elijah answered and spoke to the commander of fifty, “If I am a man of God, ^(A)let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” ^(B)Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

¹¹ So he again sent to him another commander of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and spoke to him, “O man of God, thus says the king, ‘Come down quickly.’” ¹² And Elijah answered and spoke to them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

A Stubborn and Rebellious People

¹⁴ Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts,

¹⁷ And ^[a]this is how I saw ^(A)in the vision the horses and those who sit on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of ^[b](B)brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^(C)out of their mouths come fire and smoke and ^[c](D)brimstone. ¹⁸ A ^(E)third of ^[d]mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the ^(F)fire and the smoke and the ^[e]brimstone which came out of their mouths. ¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do harm.

²⁰ And the rest of ^[f]mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(G)did not repent of ^(H)the works of their hands, so as not to ^(I)worship demons, and ^(J)the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. ²¹ And they ^(K)did not repent of their murders nor of their ^(L)sorceries nor of their ^(M)sexual immorality nor of their thefts.