Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

An hairy man

Matthew 3:4
John wore clothing made of hair cloth, and he had a leather belt around his waist, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 11:8
Then what did you go out there to see? A man luxuriously dressed? Men who dress in that way you find in the palaces of kings.
Luke 1:17
He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."
Revelation 11:3
And I will permit my two witnesses, clothed in sackcloth, to prophesy for 1,260 days."