Jonah 3:6
For word came unto jthe king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and kcovered him with sackcloth, and lsat in ashes.
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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1 Kings 21:27 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.
Jeremiah 13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah 3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
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Isaiah 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Luke 10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
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Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Micah 1:10 ¶Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
Jeremiah 6:26 ¶O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Lamentations 3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
This now accounteth for the people’s proclaiming a fast, Jon 3:5, they did it because it was commanded, and they had the king’s example herein.
whether Jonah did particularly speak to his hearers to send word to the king, or whether the strangeness of the thing might move some or other to report it to the courtiers, and they to the king, is not specified; certain it is that the king had word brought him, and it was considered by him: nor is it said who this king was; Sardanapalus seems too early, Pul-belochus is with more probability thought to be this king.
came down from his royal seat.
put off his rich, gorgeous, and luxurious apparel.
put on the rough and uneasy garments of a mourner.
as Est 4:3 Job 2:8 42:6.