1 Kings 21:27

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.

He rent

Lay in sackcloth

Joel 1:13

Went softly

Isaiah 38:15

General references

Genesis 37:34

Bible References

He rent

And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

It happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he had been walking on the wall, and the people saw, and behold, sackcloth was over his flesh underneath.

Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah [with] torn clothes, and they told him the words of the chief commander.

And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne and removed his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.

Lay in sackcloth

The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he [was] not willing, and he did not eat [any] food with them.

"I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted {my pride} in the dust.

And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding {with} sackcloth.

Is [the] fast I choose like this, a day for humankind to humiliate {himself}? To bow his head like a reed, and {make} his bed [on] sackcloth and ashes; you call this a fast and a day of pleasure to Yahweh?

Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, ministers of [the] altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Went softly

What can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done [it]. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

General references

And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.