2 Kings 1:8

And they answered him, an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It Elijah the Tishbite.

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus says the Yahuah, not because not a Elohim in Israel, you sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore you shall not come down from that bed on which you art gone up, but shall surely die.

7 And he said unto them, What manner of man which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

8 And they answered him, an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It Elijah the Tishbite.

9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, you man of Elohim, the king has said, Come down.

10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I a man of Elohim, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

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