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They answered, “He ·was a hairy man [or wore a hairy cloak] and wore a leather belt around his waist.”

Ahaziah said, “It was Elijah the Tishbite.”

Then he sent a captain with his fifty men to Elijah. The captain went to Elijah, who was sitting on top of the hill, and said to him, “Man of God [C a prophet], the king says, ‘Come down!’”

10 Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and ·burn up [consume; destroy] you and your fifty men.” Then fire came down from heaven and ·burned up [consumed; destroyed] the captain and his fifty men.

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