A Scroll Of The Torah Discovered In The Temple

¹⁰ Furthermore Shaphan the scribe showed the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me here a book." And Shaphan read it before the king. ¹¹ And the king, as soon as he had heard the words of the book of the law, he rent his clothes ¹² and commanded Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam the son of Shaphan and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,

Book of the Law

Tore His Clothes

Written in the Book

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, both he and the elders of Israel; and put earth upon their heads.

2 Kings 22:19

Because thine heart did melt and thou meekedest thyself before me, the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place and the inhabiters of the same, how that it should be destroyed and made accursed: and tearest thy clothes and weepest before me: of that also I have heard sayeth the LORD.

2 Chronicles 34:19

And when the king had heard the words of the law, he tare his clothes,

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet no man was abashed thereof, or rent his clothes: neither the king himself, nor his servants, though they heard all these words.

Joel 2:13

And tear your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God. For he is full of mercy and compassion, long ere he be angry, and great in mercy and repentance when he is at the point to punish.

Jonah 3:6-7

And the tidings came unto the king of Nineveh, which arose out of his seat, and did his apparel off and put on sackcloth, and sat him down in ashes.