2 Kings 1:7
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
In context
5 When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
6 They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”
7 The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
8 “He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
9 Then King Ahaziah sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. So the captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down!’”
2 Kings 1:7 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
- KJV King James Version
- And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
- WEB World English Bible
- He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these words?”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And he said unto them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And he saith unto them, 'What [is] the fashion of the man who hath come up to meet you, and speaketh unto you these words?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he said to them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?