⁶ They said to him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you and say to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers ^(A)to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore ^[a]you will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die.’”’” ⁷ Then he said to them, “What ^[b]did the man look like, who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?” ⁸ And they said to him, “^(B)He was a hairy man with a leather ^[c]belt worn around his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”