Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Put ashes
Laid her
General references
Bible References
Put ashes
2 Samuel 1:2
On the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and dust on his head. And it came about when he came to David that he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.
Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
Job 2:12
When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.
Job 42:6 Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.”
And I repent in dust and ashes.”
Laid her
Jeremiah 2:37 “From this place also you will go out
Withyour hands on your head;
For the Lord has rejectedthose in whom you trust,
And you will not prosper with them.”
With
For the Lord has rejected
And you will not prosper with them.”
General references
Genesis 44:13
Then they tore their clothes, and when each man loaded his donkey, they returned to the city.