列王纪下 1:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

王又派出第三名五十夫長和他的五十名手下；那五十夫長來到，就雙膝跪在以利亞面前，懇求他，對他說：“神人哪！願我的性命和這五十個僕人的性命在你眼中看為寶貴。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
王 第 三 次 差 遣 一 个 五 十 夫 长 ， 带 领 五 十 人 去 。 这 五 十 夫 长 上 去 ， 双 膝 跪 在 以 利 亚 面 前 ， 哀 求 他 说 ： 　 神 人 哪 ， 愿 我 的 性 命 和 你 这 五 十 个 仆 人 的 性 命 在 你 眼 前 看 为 宝 贵 ！

Contextual Overview

⁹ Then he sent a captain with his fifty men to Elijah. The captain went to Elijah, who was sitting on top of the hill, and said to him, "Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!'" ¹⁰ Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and burn up you and your fifty men." Then fire came down from heaven and burned up the captain and his fifty men. ¹¹ Ahaziah sent another captain and fifty men to Elijah. The captain said to him, "Man of God, this is what the king says: ‘Come down quickly!'" ¹² Elijah answered, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and burn up you and your fifty men!" Then fire came down from heaven and burned up the captain and his fifty men. ¹³ Ahaziah then sent a third captain with his fifty men. The third captain came and fell down on his knees before Elijah and begged, "Man of God, please respect my life and the lives of your fifty servants. ¹⁴ See, fire came down from heaven and burned up the first two captains of fifty with all their men. But now, respect my life." ¹⁵ The Lord 's angel said to Elijah, "Go down with him and don't be afraid of him." So Elijah got up and went down with him to see the king. ¹⁶ Elijah told Ahaziah, "This is what the Lord says: ‘You have sent messengers to ask questions of Baal-Zebub, god of Ekron. Is it because you think there is no God in Israel to ask? Because of this, you will never get up from your bed; you will die.'" ¹⁷ So Ahaziah died, just as the Lord , through Elijah, had said he would. Joram became king in Ahaziah's place during the second year Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat was king of Judah. Joram ruled because Ahaziah had no son to take his place. ¹⁸ The other things Ahaziah did are written in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he sent again: Job 15:25, Job 15:26, Proverbs 27:22, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Isaiah 1:5

fell on: Heb. bowed, Isaiah 66:2

besought: Exodus 11:8, Numbers 12:11-13, 1 Kings 13:6, Isaiah 60:14, Revelation 3:9

O man of God: Psalms 102:17, James 4:7

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 18:30 - set by 1 Samuel 22:17 - would not 2 Kings 4:40 - O thou Esther 7:3 - let my life Matthew 27:54 - feared 1 Timothy 6:11 - O man

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty,.... Which was most daring and insolent, and showed him to be dreadfully hardened, to persist in his messages after such rebuffs: and the third captain of fifty went up; instead of calling to the prophet at the bottom of the hill as the other did, he went up to the top of it:

and came and fell on his knees before Elijah: in reverence of him as a prophet of the Lord, and under a dread of the power he was possessed of, of calling for fire from heaven on him and his men, as the former instances showed:

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: he owns their lives lay at his mercy; he begs they might be spared, since it was not in contempt of him, and through ill will to him as the prophet of the Lord, but in obedience to the king's command, that they were come to him.