Sackloth and Ashes
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been
done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in
sackcloth and ashes....
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ash'-iz: Among the ancient Hebrews #and other Orientals, to
sprinkle with or sit in ashes was a mark or token of grief,
humiliation, or penitence. Ashes on the head was one of the
ordinary signs of mourning for the dead, as when "Tamar put
ashes on her head .... and went on crying" (2 Sam 13:19 the
King James Version), and of national humiliat...
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Uses of, in purification
Nu 19:9,10,17; Heb 9:13
-A symbol of mourning
2Sa 13:19; Es 4:1,3
-Sitting in
Job 2:8
-Repenting in
Job 42:6; Da 9:3; Jon 3:6; Mt 11:21; Lu 10:13
-Disguises in
1Ki 20:38,41...
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The ashes on the altar of burnt offering were gathered into a
cavity in its surface. The ashes of a red heifer burnt entire,
according to regulations prescribed in Numb. 19, had the
ceremonial efficacy of purifying the unclean, Heb 9:13 but of
polluting the clean. [SACRIFICE]
Ashes about the person, especially on the head, were
used as a sign...
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The ashes of a red heifer burned entire (Num. 19:5) when
sprinkled on the unclean made them ceremonially clean
(Heb.
9:13).
To cover the head with ashes was a token of self-
abhorrence
and humiliation (2 Sam. 13:19; Esther 4:3; Jer. 6:26,
etc.).
To feed on ashes (Isa. 44:20), means to seek that
which will
prove to be vain and unsatisfactor...
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Sitting down in, or covering one's self with, is the symbol of
mourning (Job 2:8; Job 42:6; Esther 4:1; Isaiah 61:3; Matthew
11:21). To eat asides expresses figuratively mourning is one's
food, i.e. one's perpetual portion (Psalm 102:9). "He feedeth
on ashes," i.e., tries to feed his soul with what is at once
humiliating and unsatisfying, on a...
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Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour
thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the
sight of all them that behold thee....
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And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his
shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans:
all the vessels thereof thou shalt make [of] brass....
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And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to
bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that
were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of
heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
Kidron, and carried the ashes of them un...
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And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen
breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes
which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the
altar, and he shall put them beside the altar....
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