Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:10
2 Kings 1:10 . Elijah said, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down, &c. This prayer or denunciation of Elijah did not proceed from malice and hatred to his enemies, nor from a desire to secure himself, which he could easily have done some other way; nor to revenge himself, for it was not his own cause he acted in; but from a pure zeal to vindicate God’s name and honour, which were so horribly abused; to prove his mission, and to reveal the wrath of God from heaven against the... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 1:9
2 Kings 1:9. The king sent unto him a captain of fifty, with his fifty Undoubtedly with a design to apprehend him, and take away his life: for neither the untimely death of Ahab his father, nor his own late dangerous fall, and his sickness in consequence of it, nor the thoughts of death, had made any good impression on his mind, or possessed him with the fear of God: and he was so far from making any good improvement of the warning now given him, that he was evidently enraged against the... read more