Rending

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 37:29 OT

  Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

• Genesis 37:34 OT

  Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 44:13 OT

  Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

• Numbers 14:6 OT

  Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

• Judges 11:35 OT

  When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”

• 2 Samuel 1:2 OT

  on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth, and showed respect.

• 2 Samuel 1:11 OT

  Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.

• 2 Samuel 3:31 OT

  David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

• 2 Samuel 13:19 OT

  Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

• 2 Samuel 13:31 OT

  Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

• 2 Samuel 15:32 OT

  When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn, and earth on his head.

• 2 Kings 2:12 OT

  Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

• 2 Kings 5:8 OT

  It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

• 2 Kings 6:30 OT

  When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

• 2 Kings 11:14 OT

  and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried,…

• 2 Kings 19:1 OT

  When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 22:11 OT

  When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

• 2 Kings 22:19 OT

  because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept…

• Ezra 9:3 OT

  When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

• Ezra 9:5 OT

  At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

• Job 1:20 OT

  Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

• Job 2:12 OT

  When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

• Isaiah 36:22 OT

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

• Isaiah 37:1 OT

  When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.