Thematic Bible: Wore a coarse dress of hair-cloth


Thematic Bible



Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

And they said in answer, He was a man clothed in a coat of hair, with a leather band about his body. Then he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain