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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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an hairy man: That is, he wore a rough garment, either made of camels' hair, as that of John Baptist, or of a skin, dressed with the hair on. Sir J. Chardin informs us, in a manuscript note on this place, cited by Mr. Harmer, that the eastern dervishes and fakeers are clothed just as Elijah was, with a hairy garment, girded with a leathern girdle. Isa 20:2; Zac 13:4; Mat 3:4, Mat 11:8; Luk 1:17; Rev 11:3 4 Kings (2 Kings) 1:9
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