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Sirach 48:1 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Then Elijah arose, the prophet like fire. His word burned like a torch. "

Sirach 48:1

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1 Then Elijah arose, the prophet like fire. His word burned like a torch.

2 He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal made them few in number.

3 By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens. He brought down fire three times.

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2 Kings 1:12

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"Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty."

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Mark 6:15

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"But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”"

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"Elijah was taken up into heaven because he was exceedingly zealous for the law."

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1 Kings 18:22

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"Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men."

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Luke 9:8

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"and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again."

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Sirach 48:2

"He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal made them few in number."

Sirach 48:3

"By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens. He brought down fire three times."

Sirach 48:4

"How you were glorified, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is like yours?"

Sirach 48:5

"You raised up a dead man from death, from Hades, by the word of the Most High."

Sirach 48:6

"You brought down kings to destruction, and honorable men from their sickbeds."

Sirach 48:7

"You heard rebuke in Sinai, and judgments of vengeance in Horeb."

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