Verse 14

Indeed, fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. So now, please have respect for my life.”

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 26:21 : 21 Saul replied,“I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you anymore, for you treated my life with value this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!”
• 1 Sam 26:24 : 24 In the same way that I valued your life this day, may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all danger.”
• 2 Kgs 1:10-11 : 10 Elijah replied to the captain,“If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!” Fire then came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers. 11 The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him,“Prophet, this is what the king says,‘Come down at once!’”
• Ps 49:8 : 8 (the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),
• Ps 72:14 : 14 From harm and violence he will defend them; he will value their lives.
• Ps 116:15 : 15 The LORD values the lives of his faithful followers.
• Prov 6:26 : 26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
• Matt 16:25-26 : 25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it. 26 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
• Acts 20:24 : 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.