Context 1:10 Elijah replied to the captain,1 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down2 from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
[1:10]1tnHeb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”
[1:10]2tn Wordplay contributes to the irony here. The king tells Elijah to “come down” (Hebrew יָרַד, yarad), but Elijah calls fire down (יָרַד) on the arrogant king’s officer.