2 Kings 1:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

Sent unto

Matthew 14:3

He sat

1 Kings 18:42

Luke 6:11

Thou man

Hebrews 11:36

General references

2 Kings 1:12

2 Corinthians 13:8

Bible References

Sent unto

Then he said, Go and see where he is, so that I may send and get him. And news came to him that he was in Dothan.

For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)

Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

He sat

So Ahab went up to have food and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he went down on the earth, putting his face between his knees.

But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.

Thou man

And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:

Be a prophet, O Christ, and say who gave you a blow!

And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.

And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,

And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:

General references

And Elijah in answer said, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and put an end to him and his fifty men.

Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.