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They replied, “We met a man who told us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and ask him, “Is it because there is no God in Israel that you’re going to consult with Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you won’t be getting up from that bed on which you’re lying. You will most certainly die!”’”

He told them, “Describe the man who met you and told you these things.”

They answered, “The man was a hairy fellow. He wore a leather sash around his waist.”

The king[a] responded, “It’s Elijah, that foreigner!”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:8 Lit. He
  2. 2 Kings 1:8 Lit. Elijah the Tishbite; or Elijah, the sojourner