Discovery Box2 Kings 1:9-12 
Context1:9 The king 1 sent a captain and his fifty soldiers 2 to retrieve Elijah. 3 The captain 4 went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. 5 He told him, “Prophet, 6 the king says, ‘Come down!’” 1:10 Elijah replied to the captain, 7 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down 8 from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
1:11 The king 9 sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, 10 “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” 11 1:12 Elijah replied to them, 12 “If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire from God 13 came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
2 Kings 1:15
Context1:15 The Lord’s angelic messenger said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down 14 with him to the king.
2 Kings 2:2
Context2:2 Elijah told Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel.” 15 But Elisha said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
2 Kings 2:4
Context2:4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” 16 But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:6
Context2:6 Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.
2 Kings 2:9-10
Context2:9 When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you, 17 before I am taken away from you?” Elisha answered, “May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you.” 18 2:10 Elijah 19 replied, “That’s a difficult request! 20 If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”
2 Kings 2:17
Context2:17 But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said, “Send them out.” They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah. 21
2 Kings 9:36
Context9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 22 ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.
2 Kings 10:10
Context10:10 Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the Lord announced against Ahab’s dynasty has failed to materialize. The Lord had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.” 23
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”
3 tn Heb “to him.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.
6 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).
7 tn Heb “answered and said to the officer of fifty.”
8 tn 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.
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.
11 sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.
12 tc Two medieval Hebrew
13 tn Or “intense fire.” The divine name may be used idiomatically to emphasize the intensity of the fire. Whether one translates אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) here as a proper name or idiomatically, this addition to the narrative (the name is omitted in the first panel, v. 10b) emphasizes the severity of the judgment and is appropriate given the more intense command delivered by the king to the prophet in this panel.
14 sn In this third panel the verb “come down” (יָרַד, yarad) occurs again, this time describing Elijah’s descent from the hill at the Lord’s command. The moral of the story seems clear: Those who act as if they have authority over God and his servants just may pay for their arrogance with their lives; those who, like the third commander, humble themselves and show the proper respect for God’s authority and for his servants will be spared and find God quite cooperative.
15 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
16 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
17 tn Heb “Ask! What can I do for you….?”
18 tn Heb “May a double portion of your spirit come to me.”
19 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
20 tn Heb “You have made difficult [your] request.”
21 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “It is the word of the
23 tn Heb “Know then that there has not fallen from the word of the
