1 Kings 21:27

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Nowe when Ahab heard those wordes, he rent his clothes, & put sackcloth vpon him and fasted, and lay in sackecloth and went softely.

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  • 2 Kgs 6:30 : 30 And when the King had heard the wordes of the woman, he rent his clothes, (& as he went vpon the wall, the people looked, and behold, he had sackecloth within vpon his flesh)
  • Gen 37:34 : 34 And Iaakob rent his clothes, & put sackecloth about his loynes, and sorowed for his sonne a long season.
  • 2 Sam 3:31 : 31 And Dauid said to Ioab, and to al the people that were with him, Rent your clothes, and put on sackecloth, and mourne before Abner: and King Dauid him selfe followed the beare.
  • 2 Sam 12:16-17 : 16 Dauid therefore besought God for the childe, and fasted and went in, and lay all night vpon the earth. 17 Then the Elders of his house arose to come vnto him, & to cause him to rise from the groud: but he would not, neither did he eate meate with them.
  • 2 Kgs 18:37 : 37 Then Eliakim, the sonne of Hilkiah which was steward of the house, and Shebnah the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.
  • Job 16:15 : 15 I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth.
  • Isa 38:15 : 15 What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.
  • Isa 58:5-8 : 5 Is it such a fast that I haue chosen, that a man should afflict his soule for a day, and to bowe downe his head, as a bull rush, and to lie downe in sackecloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fasting, or an acceptable day to the Lord? 6 Is not this the fasting, that I haue chosen, to loose the bandes of wickednes, to take off the heauie burdens, and to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye breake euery yoke? 7 Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that wander, vnto thine house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him, and hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh? 8 Then shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thine health shal grow speedily: thy righteousnes shall goe before thee, and the glorie of the Lord shall embrace thee.
  • Joel 1:13 : 13 Girde your selues and lament, ye Priests: howle ye ministers of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackecloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meate offring, and the drinke offring is taken away from the house of your God.
  • Jonah 3:6 : 6 For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes.

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  • 1 Kgs 21:28-29
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    28And the worde of the Lord came to Eliiah the Tishbite, saying,

    29Seest thou how Ahab is humbled before me? because he submitteth himselfe before me, I will not bring that euill in his dayes, but in his sonnes dayes wil I bring euill vpon his house.

  • Isa 37:1
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    1And when the King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth and came into the House of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 6:30
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    30And when the King had heard the wordes of the woman, he rent his clothes, (& as he went vpon the wall, the people looked, and behold, he had sackecloth within vpon his flesh)

  • 2 Kgs 19:1
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    1And when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes and put on sackecloth, and came into the house of the Lord,

  • 2 Kgs 22:11
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    11And when the King had heard the wordes of the booke of the Law, he rent his clothes.

  • 2 Chr 34:19
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    19And when the King had heard the wordes of the Lawe, he tare his clothes.

  • 1 Kgs 18:42
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    42So Ahab went vp to eate and to drinke, and Eliiah went vp to the top of Carmel: and he crouched vnto the earth, & put his face betweene his knees,

  • 1 Kgs 21:4-5
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    4Then Ahab came into his house heauie & in displeasure, because of the word which Naboth the Izreelite had spoken vnto him. for hee had sayde, I will not giue thee the inheritance of my fathers, and he lay vpon his bed, and turned his face and would eate no bread.

    5Then Iezebel his wife came to him & said vnto him, Why is thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread?

  • 2 Kgs 5:8
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    8But when Elisha the man of God had heard that the King of Israel had rent his clothes, hee sent vnto the King, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall knowe that there is a Prophet in Israel.

  • Jonah 3:5-6
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    5So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from ye greatest of the euen to the least of them.

    6For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes.

  • 2 Chr 34:27
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    27But because thine heart did melt, and thou didest humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardest his wordes against this place and against the inhabitantes thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before mee and tarest thy clothes, and weptest before mee, I haue also heard it, sayth the Lorde.

  • 1 Kgs 21:24-26
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    24The dogs shall eate him of Ahabs stocke, that dyeth in the citie: and him that dyeth in the fieldes, shall the foules of the ayre eate.

    25(But there was none like Ahab, who did fell him selfe, to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lord: whom Iezebel his wife prouoked.

    26For he did exceeding abominably in following idoles, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.)

  • 2 Kgs 22:19
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    19But because thine heart did melt, & thou hast humbled thy selfe before the Lorde, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants of the same, to wit, that it should be destroyed and accursed, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me, I hane also heard it, saith the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 18:45-46
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    45And in the meane while the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, and there was a great rayne. Then Ahab went vp and came to Izreel.

    46And the hand of the Lord was on Eliiah, and he girded vp his Ioynes, and ran before Ahab till he came to Izreel.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
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    31Then the King arose, & tare his garments, and lay on the ground, & all his seruants stoode by with their clothes rent.

  • Neh 9:1
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    1In the foure and twentieth day of this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackecloth, and earth vpon them.

  • 1 Kgs 21:1
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    1After these things Naboth the Izreelite had a vineyarde in Izreel, hard by the palace of Ahab King of Samaria.

  • Isa 22:12
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    12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and to baldnes and girding with sackecloth.

  • Joel 2:12-13
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    12Therefore also now the Lord sayth, Turne you vnto me with all your heart, & with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning,

    13And rent your heart, & not your clothes: and turne vnto the Lord your God, for he is gratious, and mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great kindnes, and repenteth him of the euill.

  • 1 Kgs 21:15-18
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    15And when Iezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead, Iezebel sayd to Ahab, Vp, & take possession of the vineyarde of Naboth the Izreelite, which he refused to giue thee for money: for Naboth is not aliue, but is dead.

    16And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he rose to go downe to the vineyard of Naboth the Izreelite, to take possession of it.

    17And the word of the Lord came vnto Eliiah the Tishbite, saying,

    18Arise, goe downe to meete Ahab King of Israel, which is in Samaria. loe, he is in the vineyarde of Naboth, whither he is gone downe to take possession of it.

  • Esth 4:1
    70%

    1Now when Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth and ashes, and went out into the middes of the citie, and cryed with a great crye, and a bitter.

  • 1 Kgs 16:30-31
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    30And Ahab the sonne of Omri did worse in ye sight of the Lord then al that were before him.

    31For was it a light thing for him to walke in the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, except hee tooke Iezebel also the daughter of Ethbaal King of the Zidonians to wife, and went and serued Baal, and worshipped him?

  • Dan 9:3
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    3And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

  • 1 Kgs 18:2-3
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    2And Eliiah went to shew himselfe vnto Ahab, and there was a great famine in Samaria.

    3And Ahab called Obadiah the gouernour of his house: (and Obadiah feared God greatly:

  • 1 Kgs 20:31-32
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    31And his seruants sayd vnto him, Beholde nowe, we haue heard say that the Kings of the house of Israel are mercifull Kings: we pray thee, let vs put sacke cloth about our loynes, & ropes about our heads, & goe out to the King of Israel: it may be that he will saue thy life.

    32Then they gyrded sackecloth about their loynes, & put ropes about their heads, and came to the King of Israel, and sayd, Thy seruant Ben-hadad sayth, I pray thee, let me liue: and he sayd, Is he yet aliue? he is my brother.

  • 1 Kgs 21:9
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    9And shee wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaime a fast, and set Naboth among the chiefe of the people,

  • Esth 4:3
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    3And in euery prouince, and place, whither the Kings charge and his commission came, there was great sorowe among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping and mourning, and many laye in sackecloth and in ashes.

  • 2 Chr 20:3
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    3And Iehoshaphat feared, and set him selfe to seeke the Lord, & proclaimed a fast throughout all Iudah.

  • 1 Kgs 21:20
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    20And Ahab sayd to Eliiah, Hast thou found mee, O mine enemie? And he answered, I haue found thee: for thou hast solde thy selfe to worke wickednes in the sight of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
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    9And he said, What haue I sinned, that thou wouldest deliuer thy seruant into the hande of Ahab, to slay me?

  • 1 Kgs 21:12
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    12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth among the chiefe of the people,

  • Joel 1:8
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    8Mourne like a virgine girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • Job 1:20
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    20Then Iob arose, and rent his garment, and shaued his head, and fel downe vpon the ground, and worshipped,

  • Joel 1:14
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    14Sanctifie you a fast: call a solemne assemblie: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the House of the Lorde your God, and cry vnto the Lord,

  • Ezra 9:3
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    3But when I heard this saying, I rent my clothes and my garment, and pluckt off the heare of mine head, and of my beard, and sate downe astonied.

  • 2 Sam 1:11
    69%

    11Then Dauid tooke hold on his clothes, & rent them, and likewise al the men that were with him.

  • Ps 35:13
    68%

    13Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.