Matthew 3:4
Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
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- Lev 11:22 : 22 Such as all the different sorts of locust.
- 2 Kgs 1:8 : 8 And they said in answer, He was a man clothed in a coat of hair, with a leather band about his body. Then he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
- Zech 13:4 : 4 And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:
- Matt 11:8 : 8 But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses.
- Mark 1:6 : 6 And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
- Luke 1:17 : 17 And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.
- Rev 11:3 : 3 And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.
- Matt 11:18 : 18 For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.
- Mal 4:5 : 5 See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.
- Deut 32:13 : 13 He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;
- 1 Sam 14:25-27 : 25 And there was honey on the face of the field, and all the people came to the honey, the bees having gone from it; 26 But not a man put his hand to his mouth for fear of the curse. 27 But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright.
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1 And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,
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2 So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.
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