Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

His raiment

Matthew 11:8
But what went ye out to see? A man clad in soft garments? but they having soft things are in king's houses.
2 Kings 1:8
And they will say to him, A man possessing hair, girded with a girdle of skin upon his loins. And he will say, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
Zechariah 13:4
And it was in that day the prophets shall be ashamed, each of his vision, in his prophesying; and they shall not put on a mantle of hair to speak lies:
Malachi 4:5
Behold, I send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the day of Jehovah, great and terrible:
Mark 1:6
And John was dressed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and eating locusts and wild honey;
Luke 1:17
And he shall come before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the intelligence of the just; to prepare a people having been put in order for the Lord.
Revelation 11:3
And I will give to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, surrounded with sackcloth.

And his

Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has an evil spirit.
Leviticus 11:22
These from them ye shall eat; the locust according to its kind, the winged locust according to its kind, and the locust without wings according to its kind, and the leaping locust according to its kind.

Wild

Deuteronomy 32:13
He will cause him to ride upon the heights of the land; He shall eat the produce of the field; And he shall suck honey from the rock, And oil from the flint of the rock
1 Samuel 14:25
And all the land came into a thicket; and honey will be upon the face of the field.

General references

Leviticus 11:22
These from them ye shall eat; the locust according to its kind, the winged locust according to its kind, and the locust without wings according to its kind, and the leaping locust according to its kind.
Luke 1:16
And many of the sons of Israel shall he turn back to the Lord their God.