2 Kings 1:9-15

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⁹ Then he sent an army captain with fifty soldiers to arrest him. They found him sitting on top of a hill. The captain said to him, “O man of God, the king has commanded you to come along with us.”

¹⁰ But Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” Then lightning struck them and killed them all!

¹¹ So the king sent another captain with fifty men to demand, “O man of God, the king says that you must come down right away.”

¹² Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men.” And again the fire from God burned them up.

¹³ Once more the king sent fifty men, but this time the captain fell to his knees before Elijah and pleaded with him, “O man of God, please spare my life and the lives of these, your fifty servants. ¹⁴ Have mercy on us! Don’t destroy us as you did the others.”

¹⁵ Then the Angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Don’t be afraid. Go with him.” So Elijah went to the king.