Matthew 3:4
"And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey."
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- 2 Kings 1:8
"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."
Read in chapter → - Leviticus 11:22
"Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind."
Read in chapter → - Zechariah 13:4
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:"
Read in chapter → - Matthew 11:8
"But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses."
Read in chapter → - Mark 1:6
"And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;"
Read in chapter → - Malachi 4:5
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:"
Read in chapter → - Luke 1:17
"And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 11:18
"For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 32:13
"He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;"
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 14:25
"And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground."
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