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He said to them, “How would you describe the man who came up to meet you and said these words to you?”

They told him, “He was dressed in clothing made of hair,[a] with a leather belt tied around his waist.”

Then Ahaziah said, “That was Elijah from Tishbe!”

So he sent a captain of fifty men to Elijah. He went up to him, and there Elijah was, sitting on top of a hill. Then the captain said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:8 Literally a man a master of hair, a term which may refer to a hairy man or a man with flowing hair. A parallel with John the Baptist supports another interpretation, wearing a garment made of hair (Matthew 3:4).