2 Kings 1:7
World English Bible (WEB)
He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these words?”
In context
5 The messengers returned to him, and he said to them, “Why is it that you have returned?”
6 They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “The LORD says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’”’”
7 He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these words?”
8 They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”
9 Then 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!’”
2 Kings 1:7 in every translation
- 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?”
- 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?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
- 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?