Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
⛓ Read 2 Kings 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Elijah calls down fire from heaven that consumes those sent to seize him; Rev's 'fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies' fuses this Elijah fire-judgment with the prophetic word. Strong on the fire-consumes-enemies motif and the Elijah figural pairing.
High confidence'Fire come down out of the sky' also echoes Elijah calling down fire on the captains: 'let fire come down from heaven' (2 Kgs 1:10,12, katabeto pyr ek tou ouranou) — verbally the closest 'fire down from heaven' parallel. Cf. the eschatological false-prophet fire of Sib. Or.; cf. Rev 11:5 (the two witnesses' fire, here counterfeited).
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee' (LXX katabēsetai pyr ek tou ouranou) — closest lexical parallel for 'fire came down out of heaven... and devoured them'; Hays volume on the exact phrase though the Ezek 38–39 context is primary.
Medium confidence