2 Kings 1:7
Good News Translation
"What did the man look like?" the king asked.

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “What sort of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?”

Contemporary English Version
"What did the man look like?" Ahaziah asked.

New American Bible
The king asked them, “What was the man like who met you and said these things to you?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?

Judges 8:18 And he said to Zebee and Salmana: What manner of men were they, whom you slew in Thabor? They answered: They were like thee, and one of them as the son of a king.

1 Samuel 28:14 And he said to her: What form is he of? And she said: An old man cometh up, and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul understood that it was Samuel, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground, and adored.

Context
Elijah Denounces Ahaziah
6But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die. 7And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?8But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.…
Cross References
2 Kings 1:6
But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest to Beelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die.

2 Kings 1:8
But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.

2 Kings 1:6
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