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So he sent a captain of fifty men to Elijah. He went up to him, and there Elijah was, sitting on top of a hill. Then the captain said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!’”

10 Then Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, let fire fall from the sky[a] and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from the sky and consumed him and his fifty men.

11 Then the king sent another captain of fifty men to him, and the captain said, “Man of God, this is what the king says: ‘Come down at once!’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:10 Or from heaven