2 Kings 1:14

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight."

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 26:21 : 21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."
  • 1 Sam 26:24 : 24 Behold, as your life was respected this day in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver me out of all oppression."
  • 2 Kgs 1:10-11 : 10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty. 11 Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down quickly!'"
  • Ps 49:8 : 8 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
  • Ps 72:14 : 14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
  • Ps 116:15 : 15 Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.
  • Prov 6:26 : 26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
  • Matt 16:25-26 : 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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  • 2 Kgs 1:9-13
    5 verses
    91%

    9Then [the king] sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down!'"

    10Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

    11Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, "Man of God, the king has said, 'Come down quickly!'"

    12Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!" The fire of God came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

    13Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, "Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.

  • 2 Kgs 1:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, "Go down with him. Don't be afraid of him." He arose, and went down with him to the king.

    16He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.'"

  • 1 Kgs 18:11-15
    5 verses
    74%

    11Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

    12It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

    13Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

    14Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here;"' and he will kill me."

    15Elijah said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."

  • 1 Kgs 18:36
    72%

    36It happened at the time of the offering of the offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

  • Job 1:16
    72%

    16While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

  • 1 Kgs 19:2
    72%

    2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!"

  • 1 Kgs 19:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

    10He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

  • Num 16:35
    72%

    35Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

  • 1 Kgs 19:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

    14He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    71%

    9He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

  • 1 Kgs 18:38-40
    3 verses
    71%

    38Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

    39When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, "Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!"

    40Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

  • 2 Kgs 2:11
    71%

    11It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

  • 1 Kgs 18:23-25
    3 verses
    71%

    23Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

    24You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh. The God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "It is well said."

    25Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."

  • 1 Kgs 20:42
    71%

    42He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'"

  • 2 Kgs 1:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?

    4Now therefore thus says Yahweh, "You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die."'" Elijah departed.

  • Luke 9:54
    71%

    54When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"

  • 2 Kgs 2:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

    16They said to him, "See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, "You shall not send them."

  • 2 Kgs 6:17
    70%

    17Elisha prayed, and said, "Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see." Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

  • 2 Kgs 10:16
    70%

    16He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh." So they made him ride in his chariot.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."

    2The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    70%

    31Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day."

  • 2 Kgs 2:2
    69%

    2Elijah said to Elisha, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel." Elisha said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

  • 2 Kgs 2:6
    69%

    6Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." They both went on.

  • 2 Kgs 3:14
    69%

    14Elisha said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.

  • Lev 10:2
    69%

    2And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
    69%

    39As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, 'Guard this man! If by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'

  • 2 Kgs 2:4
    69%

    4Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho.

  • Rom 11:3
    69%

    3"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

  • 2 Kgs 2:9
    69%

    9It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." Elisha said, "Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me."

  • 2 Kgs 9:5
    69%

    5When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting. Then he said, "I have a message for you, captain." Jehu said, "To which of us all?" He said, "To you, O captain."

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    69%

    28The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 10:24
    69%

    24They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, "If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, [he who lets him go], his life shall be for the life of him."