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Texts -- 2 Kings 1:11 (NET)

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1:11 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 !’”

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  • 2Ki 1:1-18 -- Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

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