Matthew 3:4

Camel's hair. See 2 Kings 1:8. Clothes made from the hair of a camel woven into a coarse cloth. The poor of the East have worn such for centuries. It was the uniform of a prophet (Zechariah 13:4). Leather belt. Used to fasten the loose clothes of the East. Ate locusts and wild honey. Not what we call locusts, but a kind of giant grasshopper, still eaten by the poor in the East, and kosher to the Jew (Leviticus 11:22). Bees nested in the rocks, and wild honey was plentiful. John lived off the land.