How lovely doth this third captain appear, in thus intreating for mercy! He comes to Elijah because it was the king's command! But he comes to sue for favor. Reader! when the sinner, humbled under a sense of sin, and conscious of his undeservings, comes to the Lord God of the prophet's son, Elijah's Master; and throws himself upon the free bounty and sovereign grace of Jesus; oh! how we feel interested in his cause? He must succeed! Jesus waits to be gracious. He will save; that is, he will be Jesus. How beautifully the prophet describes this: Zephaniah 3:17.
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2 Kings 1:13-14
13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fella on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.