⁵ And if anyone would harm them, ^(A)fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, ^(B)this is how he is doomed to be killed.

The Lord Proclaims Judgment

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

¹¹ Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king's order, ‘Come down quickly!’” ¹² But Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, ^(B)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.

²⁸ And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been ^(A)of my own accord. ²⁹ If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, ^(B)then the Lord has not sent me. ³⁰ But if the Lord creates something new, and ^(C)the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they ^(D)go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”

^31 (E)And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart. ³² And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and ^(F)all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods. ³³ So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and ^(G)they perished from the midst of the assembly. ³⁴ And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!” ³⁵ And ^(H)fire came out from the Lord and consumed ^(I)the 250 men offering the incense.

⁸ For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me^[a] to the nations who plundered you, ^(A)for he who touches you touches ^(B)the apple of his eye: