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

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Lay in sackcloth

The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

In that day, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests. Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

Went softly

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

General references

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.