Burnt. — Eat, or devoured (2 Kings 1:10; 2 Kings 1:12).
The two captains of the former fifties. — Rather, the former two captains of fifties.
Therefore let my life now. — And now (i.e., this time) let my life. Some MSS., and LXX., Vulg., and Arabic add the precative “now,” that is, “I pray,” as in 2 Kings 1:13 (“I pray thee” = na’).