Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 1:12
And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I [be] a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
And Elijah answered and said unto them,…. The same as he had to the first captain, and made the same request of fire from heaven; which accordingly came down, and destroyed this captain and his fifty also.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(12) Said (spake) unto them.LXX. and Syriac, unto him, which seems original.
The fire of God.The is not in the Hebrew. The LXX., Vulgate, Arabic, and Targum, with some MSS., omit of God. The phrase occurs in the sense of lightning (Job. 1:16).
Consumed him and his fifty.According to Thenius, the story of the destruction of the captains And their companies emphasises (1) the authority properly belonging to the prophet; (2) the help and protection which Jehovah bestows on His prophets. The captains and their men are simply conceived as instruments of a will opposing itself to Jehovah, and are accordingly annihilated. These considerations, he thinks, render irrelevant all questions about the moral justice of their fate, and comparative degrees of guilt. (Comp. 2Ki. 2:23, seq., 2Ki. 6:17.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
12. The fire of God These severe judgments were not the fallible Elijah’s work, but the work of Elijah’s God, who to the incorrigibly wicked is ever “a consuming fire.” Heb 12:29.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I [be] a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Ver. 12. And Elijah answered. ] See on 2Ki 1:10 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
unto them. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read “unto him”.
fire of God. Occurs only here and Job 1:16. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, omit “of God”, as in 2Ki 1:10.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
2Ki 1:9, 2Ki 1:10
Reciprocal: Lev 10:2 – fire Num 11:1 – and the fire 1Ki 18:38 – fire 1Ki 22:28 – If thou return Job 1:16 – there came
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1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, {i} If I [be] a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
(i) Meaning, that God would show by effect whether he was a true prophet or not.