Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
Declare
Bible References
Declare
2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath, nor publish it in the streets of Ashkelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and that the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph thereof.
Amos 5:13
Therefore the wise must now be fain to hold his tongue, so wicked a time is it.
Amos 6:10
So their next kinfolks and the dead buriers shall take them, and carry away their bones, and say unto him that is in the innermore house, 'Is there yet any more by thee?' And he shall answer, 'They are all gone. Hold thy tongue,' shall he say. For they would not remember the name of the LORD.
Roll
Job 2:8
so that he sat upon the ground in the ashes, and scraped off the filth of his sores with a potsherd.
Jeremiah 6:26
Wherefore, gird a sackcloth about thee, O daughter of my people; sprinkle thyself with ashes, mourn and weep bitterly, as upon the only beloved son: for the destroyer shall suddenly fall upon us.
Lamentations 3:29
He layeth his face upon the earth, if, percase, there happen to be any hope.