John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 1:8

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they answered him, he was an hairy man, etc.] Either the hair of his head and beard were grown very long, having been much neglected for a great while; or he had an hairy garment on, either of goats’ hair, such as the Chinese wear f6, whose women spin it, (see <023526>Exodus 35:26) and of which garments are made; or of camels’ hair, such as John the Baptist wore, who came in his spirit and power, and imitated him in his dress, being also, as Elijah here, girt with a girdle of leather about his loins: for more expeditious travelling, not for warmth, the climate being hot: and he said, it is Elijah the Tishbite; for he had seen him formerly in his father’s court in this dress.

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