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2 Kings 1:6-9 Amplified Bible (AMP)

6. They replied, A man came up to meet us who said, Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, Thus says the Lord: Is there no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not leave the bed on which you lie, but shall surely die.

7. The king asked, What was the man like who came to meet you saying these things?

8. They answered, He was a hairy man with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

9. Then the king sent to Elijah a captain of fifty men with his fifty [to seize him]. He found Elijah sitting on a hilltop and said, Man of God, the king says, Come down.

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