2 Kings 1:8

And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

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In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

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

9Then [the king] sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he spoke to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.

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Cross References

Isaiah 20:2at that time LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Matthew 3:4Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather belt about his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6And John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and eating locusts and wild honey.

Revelation 11:3And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 1:2-9

Second Kings This second book of the Kings (which the LXX., numbering from Samuel, called the fourth ) is a continuation of the former book; and, some think, might better have been made to begin with the fifty-first verse of the foregoing chapter , where the reign of Ahaziah begins. The former book had an illustrious beginning, in the glories of the kingdom of Israel, when it was entire; this has a melancholy conclusion, in the desolations of the kingdoms of Israel first, and then of Judah, after they had been… Read the whole commentary →

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