Thematic Bible: Wearing mourning clothes


Thematic Bible



And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead. Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

she took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage. Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfGrowing UpClothing OneselfPeople Stripping OffSitting In The GatewaydisguisesUsing RoadsDistinctive ClothingGiving In Marriage

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