He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?” They [a]answered him, “(A)He was a hairy man with a leather girdle [b]bound about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

Then the king (B)sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:8 Lit said
  2. 2 Kings 1:8 Or girt