Jonah 3:6
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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Esther 4:1Now 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.
Job 2:8And he tooke a potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.
Psalms 2:10Be wise nowe therefore, ye Kings: be learned ye Iudges of the earth.
Jeremiah 13:18Say vnto the King and to the Queene, Humble yourselues, sit downe, for the crowne of your glory shall come downe from your heads.
Lamentations 3:29He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.
Daniel 9:3And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew Henry on Jonah 3:6-10
Nineveh's Repentance. ( b. c. 840.) 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 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. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not… Read the whole commentary →