7And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?


In Context

4 Wherefore thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias went away.

5 And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back?

6 But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel that thou sendest to Beelzebub the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but then shalt surely die.

7 And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?

8 But they said: A hairy man with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias the Thesbite.

9 And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down.

2 Kings 1:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:7The king asked them, "What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7And he said unto them, What manner of man [was he] which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7And he said to them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:7And he said unto them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:7And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7And he said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7He said to them, |What kind of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7And he saith unto them, 'What is the fashion of the man who hath come up to meet you, and speaketh unto you these words?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7And he said to them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?