Then he said to them, “What kind of man was it who came up to meet you and told you these words?”

So they answered him, (A)“A hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist.”

And he said, (B)“It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. So he went up to him; and there he was, sitting on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him: “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’ ”

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