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2 Kings 1:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. The third captain went up and fell on his knees in front of Elijah and begged him, ‘Man of God,  please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious to you.

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Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick.


Note this: I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying #– #I will make them come and bow down at your feet,   and they will know that I have loved you.


Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.


My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the  Lord’s declaration. I will look favourably on this kind of person: one who is humble,  submissive   in spirit, and trembles at my word.


The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall face down at your feet. They will call you the City of the  Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live;  after that they go to the dead.


Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him.


Then the king responded to the man of God, ‘Plead for the favour of the Lord your God and pray for me  so that my hand may be restored to me.’ So the man of God pleaded for the favour of the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it had been at first.


Saul responded, ‘I have sinned.  Come back, my son David, I will never harm you again because today you considered my life precious. I have been a fool! I’ve committed a grave error.’


All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Get out, you and all the people who follow you.  After that, I will get out.’ And he went out from Pharaoh’s presence fiercely angry.


Elijah responded, ‘If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men.’ So a divine fire  came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.


Already fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains with their companies, but this time let my life be precious to you.’


Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.





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