5. When the messengers returned to the king, he said to them, “Why have you returned?”
6. And they said to him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king that sent you and say to him: Thus says the Lord: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed on which you have gone up, but you will surely die.’ ”
7. He said to them, “What sort of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these things?”
8. They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a leather belt around his waist.”He said, “It was Elijah the Tishbite.”
9. Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. He went up to Elijah, and there he was, sitting on the top of a hill, and he said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’ ”