8They replied, "He was a man with a garment of hair and with a leather belt around his waist." The king said, "That was Elijah the Tishbite."


In Context

5 When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you come back?"

6 "A man came to meet us," they replied. "And he said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, "This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending men to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!" ' "

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

8 They replied, "He was a man with a garment of hair and with a leather belt around his waist." The king said, "That was Elijah the Tishbite."

9 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!' "

10 Elijah answered the captain, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.

2nd Kings 1:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8And they said to him, He was a man in a hairy garment, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:8But they said: A hairy man with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias the Thesbite.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:8And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:8And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8They answered him, |He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.| He said, |It is Elijah the Tishbite.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8And they say unto him, 'A man — hairy, and a girdle of skin girt about his loins;' and he saith, 'He is Elijah the Tishbite.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.