2 Kings 1:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ Then he sent an officer with fifty men to get Elijah. The officer found him sitting on a hill and said to him, “Man of God, the king orders you to come down.”

^10 (A)“If I am a man of God,” Elijah answered, “may fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!” At once fire came down and killed the officer and his men.

¹¹ The king sent another officer with fifty men, who went up^[a] and said to Elijah, “Man of God, the king orders you to come down at once!”