Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
In every province
Great mourning
Weeping
Many lay in sackcloth and ashes
General references
Bible References
In every province
Esther 1:1
And it will be in the days of Ahasuerus, (this Ahasuerus reigned from India and even to Cush; seven and twenty and one hundred provinces:)
Esther 3:12
And the king's scribes will be called in the first month, in the thirteenth day in it, and it will be written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps and to the prefects, which were over province and province, and to the chiefs of people and people of province and province, according to its writing, and people and people according to their tongue; in the name of king Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring.
Great mourning
1 Samuel 4:13
And he will come, and behold, Eli sitting upon a seat of the side of the way, looking about: for his heart was trembling for the ark of God. And the man came to announce in the city, and all the city will cry out
1 Samuel 11:4
And the messengers will come to the hill of Saul and will speak the words in the ears of the people: and all the people will lift up their voice and weep.
Isaiah 22:4
For this I said, Look ye away from me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye shall not hasten to comfort me upon the desolation of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 37:1
And it will be when king Hezekiah heard, and he will rend his garments, and he will be covered with sackcloth and go in to the house of Jehovah.
Weeping
Matthew 13:42
And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 22:13
Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 25:30
And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.
Many lay in sackcloth and ashes
Isaiah 58:5
Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah.
Daniel 9:3
And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:
General references
Genesis 37:34
And Jacob will rend his garments, and will put sackcloth upon his loins, and will mourn for his son many days.