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 2 Kings 1:10.
Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 1:12
2 Kings 1:12
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.