⁷ The king asked them, “What sort of man was this who came up to meet you and who said these words to you?” ⁸ They replied, “He was wearing a garment made from hair^[a] and a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It was Elijah the Tishbite!”

⁹ The king then sent a captain of fifty along with his fifty men. He went up to him, and he found him sitting on a hilltop. He said to him, “O man of God, the king orders you, ‘Come down!’ ”