Chapter 1 of the 2 Kings concerns Ochozias the king of Samaria and the prophet Elias, who predicted his death. Verse 10 concerns a captain of 50 and his men, whom the king sent to Elias.
"Respondensque Helias dixit quinquagenario: "Si homo Dei sum, descendat
ignis e caelo et devoret te et quinquaginta tuos." Descendit itaque ignis e
caelo et devoravit eum et quinquaginta qui erant cum eo."
And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of
God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. And
there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty that
were with him.
The third conjugation verb descendere appears first in the present subjunctive form descendat, when Elias predicts the death of the captain and his men and then in the perfect indicative form descendit, recording that the fire came down.
Similarly, the first conjugation verb devorare appears first in the present subjunctive form devoret, and then in the perfect indicative active form devoravit.
Incidentally, it would appear that for the verb descendere, the 3rd person singular present indicative active and the 3rd person singular perfect indicative active are identical in form, both being descendit.
descendo, descendere, descendi, descensus to be reduced; to come down
devoro, devorare, devoravi, devoratus to devour, consume
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