2 Kings 18:37

Assyrians Advise Against Trust In Yahweh

³⁶ But the people kept silent and did not answer him, for the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.” ³⁷ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the [royal] household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the secretary, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn [in grief and despair] and told him what the Rabshakeh had said.

Tore Their Clothes

Asaph

Eliakim

Hezekiah

Hilkiah

Joah

Rab-shakeh

Shebna

Genesis 37:29

Now Reuben [unaware of what had happened] returned to the pit, and [to his great alarm found that] Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his clothes [in deep sorrow].

Genesis 37:34

So Jacob tore his clothes [in grief], put on sackcloth and mourned many days for his son.

2 Kings 5:7

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes [in shock and outrage at the request] and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me [a request] to heal a man of his leprosy? Just consider [what he is asking] and see how he is seeking an opportunity [for a battle] with me.”

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his clothes—now he was still walking along on the wall—and the people looked [at him], and he had on sackcloth underneath [his royal robe] next to his skin.

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Aramaic (Syrian) language, because we understand it; and do not speak with us in the Judean (Hebrew) language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Kings 22:11

Now when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was tender (receptive, penitent) and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I said against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,” declares the Lord.

Job 1:20

Then Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head [in mourning for the children], and he fell to the ground and worshiped [God].

Isaiah 33:7

Now look, their brave men shout outside;
The ambassadors [seeking a treaty] of peace weep bitterly.

Isaiah 36:21-22

But they kept silent and did not say a word to him in reply, for King Hezekiah’s command was, “Do not answer him.”

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their clothes.

Matthew 26:65

Then the high priest tore his robes [in mock horror] and exclaimed, “He has blasphemed [by making Himself God’s equal]! What further need have we of witnesses or evidence? See, you have now heard the blasphemy.