I found out recently that John the Baptist was more likely eating locust beans and honey. Not locusts. I looked up locust beans on the internet. There's some grown in Africa that are different from those grown in Isreal. Which are carob pods. The yummy insects are not always available.
I had known someone that is from Africa, that he used to make pancakes from grounded up Black-eyes peas. He just put them into a food processor and grind them up into a flour. and he told me that they had grounded them up by hand before. He said that it is common for them to ground up beans and uses them as flour. Elijah was a represented John, and he had ate honey with cakes.
1 Samuel 30:12-13 part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights. David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?” He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master
1 Samuel 25:18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
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2 Samuel 6:19 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.
Hosea 3:1 [ Hosea’s Reconciliation With His Wife ] The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”