The king asked them, ‘What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?’

They replied, ‘He had a garment of hair[a] and had a leather belt round his waist.’

The king said, ‘That was Elijah the Tishbite.’

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:8 Or He was a hairy man