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“Who was this fellow?” the king demanded. “What did he look like?”

“He was a hairy man,” they replied, “with a wide leather belt.”

“It was Elijah the prophet!” the king exclaimed. Then he sent an army captain with fifty soldiers to arrest him. They found him sitting on top of a hill. The captain said to him, “O man of God, the king has commanded you to come along with us.”

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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](A) and had a leather belt around his waist.”

The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”

Then he sent(B) to Elijah a captain(C) 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