And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Eli´jah did?
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jerobo´am, which made Israel to sin.
And the king called the Gib´e-onites, and said unto them; (now the Gib´e-onites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah:)
Then said Ab´ishai the son of Zeru-i´ah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.