2 Kings 1:8

WEB

⁸They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”

KJV

⁸And 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.

BSB

⁸“He was a hairy man,^[+] they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.

FBV

⁸“He was a hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist,” they replied. “It's Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.

Extra References

Matthew 3:4

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

Zechariah 13:4

⁴It will happen in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy mantle to deceive,

Mark 1:6

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

Revelation 11:3

³I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Luke 1:17

¹⁷He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

Matthew 11:8

⁸But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

Isaiah 20:2

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.