Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
Bible References
A man
2 Kings 1:8
And they said unto him, "It was a hairy man and girded with a girdle of a skin about his loins." And he said unto them, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."
Isaiah 59:17
He put righteousness upon him for a breastplate, and set the helmet of health upon his head. He put on wrath instead of clothing, and took jealousy about him for a cloak:
Matthew 3:4
This John had his garment of camel's hair, and a girdle of a skin about his loins; his meat was locusts and wild honey.
1 Peter 3:3
Whose apparel shall not be outward with broided hair, and hanging on of gold, other in putting on of gorgeous apparel:
Are in
2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day four score year old: and therefore can not discern savoury from unsavoury, neither hath thy servant pleasure in that he eateth or drinketh: nor yet delectation in the songs of men or women. It is no need that thy servant be a burden unto my lord the king:
1 Kings 10:5
and the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his servitors and their apparel, and his butlers and his sacrifice that he offered in the house of the LORD, she was astonished.
Esther 1:3
in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and servants. And the mighty men of Persia and Media, the captains also, and rulers of his countries, were before him;
Esther 4:2
and came before the king's gate: for there might no man enter within the king's gate, that had a sackcloth on.
Esther 5:1
And on the third day put Esther on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's palace within, over against the king's house. And the king sat upon his royal seat in the king's palace over against the gate of the house.
Esther 8:15
As for Mordecai, he went out from the king in royal apparel of yellow and white, and with a great crown of gold, being arrayed with a garment of linen and purple, and the city of Susa rejoiced and was glad:
Matthew 6:29
And yet for all that, I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his royalty, was not arrayed like unto one of these.