Matthew 3:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ And Yoḥanan had a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ This same John's garments were made of camel's hair, and he wore a leather girdle about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. [Lev. 11:22; II Kings 1:8; Zech. 13:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Now John himself had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Common English Bible

⁴ John wore clothes made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Now the same John had a garment made from the hair of camels, and a leather belt around his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3:4 Cross References

2 Kings 1:8

And they answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wore a leather girdle around his waist.” And he said, “It is Ěliyah the Tishbite.”

Leviticus 11:22

‘These of them you do eat: the arbeh-locust after its kind, and the solam-locust after its kind, and the ḥargol-locust after its kind, and the ḥagaḇ-locust after its kind.

Mark 1:6

And Yoḥanan was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather girdle around his waist, and eating locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 11:8

“But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft garments? Look, those wearing soft garments are in the houses of sovereigns.

Zechariah 13:4

“And it shall be in that day that the prophets shall be ashamed, everyone of his vision when he prophesies, and not put a hairy robe on in order to deceive,

Luke 1:17

“And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Ěliyahu, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the insight of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for יהוה.”

Malachi 4:5

“See, I am sending you Ěliyah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה.

Revelation 11:3

“And I shall give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth.”

Matthew 11:18

“For Yoḥanan came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

Deuteronomy 32:13

“He made him ride in the heights of the earth, And he ate the fruit of the fields, And He made him to draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock,

Isaiah 20:2

at that same time יהוה spoke by means of Yeshayahu son of Amots, saying, “Go, and remove the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.