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9 The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him, |Prophet, the king says, 'Come down!'| 10 Elijah replied to the captain, |If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!| Fire then came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers. 11 The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, |Prophet, this is what the king says, 'Come down at once!'| 12 Elijah replied to them, |If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!| Fire from God came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers. 2 Kings 1:9-12, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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