And they said to him, “(A)He was a hairy man with a leather [a]belt worn around his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

Then the king (B)sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, “You man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’” 10 But Elijah replied to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, (C)may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” (D)Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:8 Lit loincloth

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