Sackcloth was Worn
7 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
At Funerals
- 2 Samuel 3:31 Then David ordered Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David himself walked behind the funeral bier.
Frequently Next the Skin in Deep Afflictions
- 1 Kings 21:27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
- 2 Kings 6:30 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
- Job 16:15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
Girt About the Loins
- Genesis 37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
- 1 Kings 20:31 Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he …
Often Over the Whole Person
- 2 Kings 19:1–2 On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD. …
Often with Ropes on the Head
- 1 Kings 20:31 Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he …
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SackclothSackcloth was Worn by God's ProphetsSackcloth was Worn by Persons in AfflictionSackcloth was Worn in the StreetsSackcloth was Worn with Ashes on the HeadMourning for Calamities and Other Sorrows
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.