2 Kings 1:8

They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s 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

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

9Then 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!’”

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Cross References

Isaiah 20:2at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Matthew 3:4Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

Revelation 11:3I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand and 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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