Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Lay in sackcloth
Went softly
General references
Bible References
He rent
Genesis 37:34
So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
2 Kings 6:30
When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body.
2 Kings 18:37
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Jonah 3:6
When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.
Lay in sackcloth
2 Samuel 12:17 The elders of his household stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.
Job 16:15 “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin
Andthrust my horn in the dust.
And
Isaiah 22:12 Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
Toshaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.
To
Isaiah 58:5 “Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it for bowingone’s head like a reed
And for spreading outsackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even anacceptable day to the Lord?
Is it for bowing
And for spreading out
Will you call this a fast, even an
Joel 1:13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth
And lament, O priests;
Wail, O ministers of the altar!
Come,spend the night in sackcloth
O ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
And lament, O priests;
Come,
O ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
Went softly
Isaiah 38:15 “What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I willwander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
I will
General references
Genesis 37:34
So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.