Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Bible References

Word

Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the mistress, Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory was brought down from your heads.

And he arose

Psalm 2:10
And now be circumspect, ye and be silent Silence.
James 1:9
And let the humble brother boast in his elevation:
James 4:6
And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

And covered

Esther 4:1
And Mordecai knew all that was done, and Mordecai will rend his garments, and put on sackcloth and ashes, and he will go forth into the city, and he will cry out a great and bitter cry;
Job 2:8
And he will take to him a pot sherd to scrape himself with it, and he will sit in the midst of the ashes.
Job 42:6
For this, I shall melt away, and I lamented in dust and ashes.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make to thee the mourning of an only begotten, a wailing of bitterness; for he laying waste shall suddenly come upon us.
Lamentations 3:29
He will give his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is hope.
Daniel 9:3
And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:
Micah 1:10
Ye shall not announce in Gath; weeping, ye shall not weep: in the house of dust roll thyself in dust
Matthew 11:21
Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Sidon had been the powers being in you, long since had they repented in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 10:13
Woe to thee Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Sidon were the powers having been in you, long since had they changed the mind, sitting in 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.
Exodus 9:20
He fearing the word of Jehovah from the servants of Pharaoh, caused his servants to flee, and his cattle to the houses.
Jeremiah 36:13
And Micaiah will announce to them all the words which he heard in the reading of Baruch in the book in the ears of the people.
Acts 9:9
And he was three days not seeing, and he ate not, nor drank.