Jeremiah 36:24

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Summary

Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

Nor rent

General references

Genesis 37:34

Bible References

Nor rent

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You [have seen their faithless heart and] have stricken them,
But they did not weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they refused to take correction or instruction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent and return to You.

Now when Ahab heard these words [of Elijah], he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly (mourning).

When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and he covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house (temple) of the Lord.

Now when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.

When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes.

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recording historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn [in grief], and told him the words of the Rabshakeh [the Assyrian commander].

And when King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.

When word reached the king of Nineveh [of Jonah’s message from God], he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in the dust [in repentance].

The men of Nineveh will stand up [as witnesses] at the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now, something greater than Jonah is here.

General references

So Jacob tore his clothes [in grief], put on sackcloth and mourned many days for his son.