gSee Deut. 33:1
1 Samuel 15:27-28
27 aAs Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 28And Samuel said to him, b“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.1 Kings 11:29-31
29And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet cAhijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country. 30Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, dand tore it into twelve pieces. 31And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, eI am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes2 Kings 13:15-19
15And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and arrows.” So he took a bow and arrows. 16Then he said to the king of Israel, “Draw the bow,” and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands. 17And he said, “Open the window eastward,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot,” and he shot. And he said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in fAphek until you have made an end of them.” 18And he said, “Take the arrows,” and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground with them.” And he struck three times and stopped. 19Then gthe man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only hthree times.”Jeremiah 13:1-11
The Ruined Loincloth
1Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and iput it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.” 2So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist. 3And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, 4“Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, jgo to the Euphrates and hide it there in ka cleft of the rock.” 5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me. 6And after many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there lthe loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.” 7Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took mthe loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was nspoiled; it was ogood for nothing.8Then the word of the Lord came to me: 9“Thus says the Lord: pEven so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great qpride of Jerusalem. 10This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, rwho stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is sgood for nothing. 11For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the Lord, tthat they might be for me a people, ua name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.
Jeremiah 19:10-11
10“Then vyou shall break wthe flask in the sight of the men who go with you, 11and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, xas one breaks a potter’s vessel, yso that it can never be mended. zMen shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.
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