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


In Context

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!'|

10 Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, |If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!| Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

2 Kings 1:8 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:8They 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."

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 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.