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

They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a leather belt around his waist.”

“It’s Elijah the Tishbite,” he said.

So the king sent a captain of 50 with his 50 to Elijah. When the captain went up to him, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. So he announced to him, “O man of God, by order of the king, come down!”

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