2 Samuel 13:19
And Tamar put efer (ash) on her rosh (head) and made the kri'ah (tearing, rending) on her kesones of various colors that was on her, and laid her yad on her rosh, and went on weeping as she went.
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1 Samuel 4:12And there ran an ish of Binyamin out of the ma'arakhah (battleground), and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn, and with adamah upon his rosh.
2 Samuel 1:11Then Dovid took hold on his clothes, and made the kri'ah on them; and likewise all the anashim that were with him;
Job 2:12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and recognized him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they made the keri'ah every one on his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward Shomayim.
Jeremiah 2:37Yea, thou shalt go forth from this, + 2:37 dependence on religiously entangling and compromising foreign allies 1 and thine hands upon thine head; 1 for Hashem hath rejected thy confidences, 1 and thou shalt not prosper in them.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 13:2-21
Amnon's Incest. ( b. c. 1032.) 1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. 2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her. 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtle man. 4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to… Read the whole commentary →