2 Kings 1:7
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.’”
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!’”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
- KJV
- And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
- WEB
- He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these words?”
- ASV
- And he said unto them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?
- DARBY
- And he said to them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?
- BLB
- And he said to them, “What was the manner of the man who came up to meet you⁺ and told to you⁺ these words?”
- ÅB
- Han spurte dem: Hvordan så den mann ut som kom dere i møte og talte slik til dere?
- OTB
- Kongen spurte dem da, “Hva slags mann var det som kom for å møte dere og fortalte dere dette?”
- B1930
- Han spurte dem: Hvorledes så den mann ut som kom eder i møte og talte således til eder?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 8:18
Next, Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” “Men like you,” they answered, “each one resembling the son of a king.”
Read in context1 Samuel 28:14
“What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence.
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