Matthew 3:4

New Messianic Version Bible

Behold Yochanan [Yah is gracious] was clothed with the hair of camels and black leather girded his loins (thigh and groin area; often used for the reproductive organs) and his food was locust and the honey of the forest.

Cross References

2 Kings 1:8

And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and wearing with a belt of leather about his waist. And he said, It [is] Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] the Tishbi [captivity].

Leviticus 11:22

[Even] these of them you2f may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

Mark 1:6

And Yochanan [Yehovah has graced] was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a belt of a skin about his waist; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;

Matthew 11:8

“Or what did you go out to see? Do you think that Yochanan [Yah is gracious] was a man clothed in noble garments? Behold those who wear noble garments are in kings houses”.

Zechariah 13:4

And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he has prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

Luke 1:17

And he shall go before him in the Spirit [Ruach] and power of Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah], to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord - Kurios.

Malachi 4:5

Behold, I will send you Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate):

Revelation 11:3

And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Matthew 11:18

“Because Yochanan [Yah is gracious] came neither eating nor drinking and they say concerning him: ‘He is possessed of demons’”.

Deuteronomy 32:13

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Isaiah 20:2

At the same time spoke the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the son of Amotz [strong], saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off youri waist, and put off youri shoe from youri foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.