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


In Context

4 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, |You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.|'| Elijah departed.

5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, |Why is it that you have returned?|

6 They said to him, |A man came up to meet us, and said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, |Thus says Yahweh, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.'|'|

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

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

9 Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, |Man of God, the king has 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 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 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?