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, dressed himself in sackcloth, and then mourned many days for his son.
2 Kings 6:30
When the king heard what the woman said, he ripped his garments as he continued walking along the city wall. As the people watched, all of a sudden they noticed he was wearing sackcloth underneath his clothes, inside next to his flesh!
2 Kings 18:37
But Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who managed the household, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah the recorder came back to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him what Rab-shakeh had said.
Jonah 3:6
When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his royal garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in ashes.
Lay in sackcloth
2 Samuel 12:17
His closest advisors at the palace got up, remained with him, and tried to help him get up from the ground, but he would not do so. He also wouldn't eat with them.
Job 16:15
"I've even sewn sackcloth directly to my skin; I've buried my strength in the dust.
Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving heads and wearing sackcloth.
Isaiah 58:5
"Is this the kind of fast that I have chosen, merely a day for a person to humble himself? Is it merely for bowing down one's head like a bulrush, for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is this what you call a fast, an acceptable day to the LORD?
Joel 1:13
"Put on your mourning clothes, you priests; and cry aloud, you ministering servants at the altar! Come! Stay the night in mourner's clothes, you ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the wine offering is held back from the Temple of your God.
Went softly
Isaiah 38:15
What can I say, so I tell myself, since he has done this to me? I will walk slowly all my years because of my soul's anguish.
General references
Genesis 37:34
So Jacob tore his clothes, dressed himself in sackcloth, and then mourned many days for his son.