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2 Samuel 3:31
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2 Samuel 3:31
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31 Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth(A) and walk in mourning(B) in front of Abner.” King David himself walked behind the bier.
2 Samuel 3:31
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2 Samuel 3:31
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31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
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1 Kings 20:31
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1 Kings 20:31
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31 His officials said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of Israel are merciful.(A) Let us go to the king of Israel with sackcloth(B) around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
1 Kings 20:31
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1 Kings 20:31
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31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
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1 Kings 21:27
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1 Kings 21:27
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27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth(A) and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.(B)
1 Kings 21:27
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1 Kings 21:27
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27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
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2 Kings 6:30
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2 Kings 6:30
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30 When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore(A) his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth(B) on his body.
2 Kings 6:30
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2 Kings 6:30
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30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
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2 Kings 19:1
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2 Kings 19:1
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Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold(A)
19 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore(B) his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord.
2 Kings 19:1
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2 Kings 19:1
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19 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
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2 Kings 19:2
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2 Kings 19:2
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2 He sent Eliakim(A) the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests,(B) all wearing sackcloth,(C) to the prophet Isaiah(D) son of Amoz.
2 Kings 19:2
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2 Kings 19:2
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2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
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Job 16:15
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Job 16:15
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Job 16:15
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Job 16:15
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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Psalm 69:11
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Psalm 69:11
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11 when I put on sackcloth,(A)
people make sport of me.
Psalm 69:11
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Psalm 69:11
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11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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Isaiah 3:24
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Isaiah 3:24
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24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
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Isaiah 15:3
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Isaiah 15:3
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3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
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Isaiah 22:12
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Isaiah 22:12
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Isaiah 22:12
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Isaiah 22:12
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12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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Isaiah 32:11
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Isaiah 32:11
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Isaiah 32:11
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Isaiah 32:11
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11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
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Isaiah 37:1
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Isaiah 37:1
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Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold(A)
37 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes(B) and put on sackcloth(C) and went into the temple(D) of the Lord.
Isaiah 37:1
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Isaiah 37:1
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37 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
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