Verse 8

But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in king's houses.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 1:8 : 8 They answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of leather about his loins. He said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
  • Isa 20:2 : 2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
  • Zech 13:4 : 4 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
  • Matt 3:4 : 4 Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
  • 1 Cor 4:11 : 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."