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They answered him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us: ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and say to him, thus says Adonai, “Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on, for you will surely die.”’”

Then he said to them, “What kind of man was he that came up to meet you and told you these words?”

They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a leather belt around his waist.”

“It’s Elijah the Tishbite,” he said.

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