The charge of cruelty against Elijah requires us to consider his motive. His purpose was to make a sharp, public example and to vindicate God's hon…

And Elijah answered and said. —So the Syriac and Septuagint. Hebrew, and spake.

If. —Hebrew: …

And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, if I be a man of God As I am, and you shall know it by the followin…

Elijah called for fire from heaven, to consume the haughty, daring sinners; not to secure himself, but to prove his mission, and to reveal the wrat…