1 Kings 21:27

Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.

2 Kings 6:30

Hearing this, the king tore his clothes. The people close to the wall could see that he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.

Genesis 37:34

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

2 Samuel 3:31

David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried.

2 Samuel 12:16-17

David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.

2 Kings 18:37

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief. They reported to the king what the Assyrian official had said.

Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Isaiah 38:15

There is nothing I can say in answer to you. For you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour. I will limp until I die.

Isaiah 58:5-8

Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed (rush) and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Jehovah?

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth you ministers of my God! The meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

Jonah 3:6

The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes.

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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.

Went softly

General references

Bible References

He rent

Genesis 37:34
Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.
2 Kings 6:30
Hearing this, the king tore his clothes. The people close to the wall could see that he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.
2 Kings 18:37
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief. They reported to the king what the Assyrian official had said.
Jonah 3:6
The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes.

Lay in sackcloth

2 Samuel 12:17
The elders in his palace stood beside him to raise him up from the ground. But he was unwilling and he would not eat with them.
Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.
Isaiah 22:12
In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.
Isaiah 58:5
Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed (rush) and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Jehovah?
Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth you ministers of my God! The meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.

Went softly

Isaiah 38:15
There is nothing I can say in answer to you. For you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour. I will limp until I die.

General references

Genesis 37:34
Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.