Leviticus 10:6
6And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, a“Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and bwrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the Lord has kindled.2 Samuel 19:24
24And cMephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.1 Kings 21:27
27And when Ahab heard those words, he dtore his clothes and eput sackcloth on his flesh and ffasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.2 Kings 19:1
Isaiah Reassures Hezekiah
1 gAs soon as King Hezekiah heard it, hhe tore his clothes and icovered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.Ezra 9:3
3As soon as I heard this, I jtore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and ksat appalled.Esther 4:1-4
Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
1When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes land put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. 2He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. 3And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, mwith fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them nlay in sackcloth and ashes.4When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
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