2 Kings 1:8 (KJV)

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And 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

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an hairy man.That is, he wore a rough garment, either made of camels' hair, as that of John Baptist, or of a skin, dressed with the hair on. Sir J. Chardin informs us, in a MS. note on this place, cited by Mr. Harmer, that the eastern dervishes and fakeers are clothed just as Elijah was, with a hairy garment, girded with a leathern girdle. Isa 20:2 Zec 13:4 Mt 3:4 Mt 11:8 Lu 1:17 Re 11:3

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