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


In Context

4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

5 And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them, Why have ye now returned?

6 And they said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

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

8 And 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.

9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:7And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke 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 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?